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Need some advice here. I am a fullstack developer with 5 yoe in Angular and Python. My aim is to crack FAANG companies.Now I got an offer from HSBC in a credit risk model monitoring role using Python.It is close to a data engineer role.
My question is that will it be a good idea to shift from development role to a model monitoring role if I want to move to FAANG in the future?Or does FAANG not prefer people who are not in core development roles?Amazon Microsoft Google Adobe PwC EY Citi Barclays JPMorgan Chase
Hey Guys,
I got a call from Infosys HR on 16-September-2022 that I have been successfully selected for the job position of Test Analyst at Infosys, as per our conversation I have to receive an offer letter within 15 days, but I haven’t received it till now.
Now They have sent a mail that your Candidature is on hold. Is this happened with anyone else also.
Please do suggest on this guys.
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You'll probably get a case study to do
I had 3 interviews - one on behavior/resume, one also behavioral with a few technical accounting questions to see if I had learned anything from audit, third was case study. In the case study, I got 3 pieces of paper: one was general background company/industry info then there was a BS and an IS. They said "your client wants to buy this company. What do you tell them to consider?"
Can you elaborate how they present it to you? They email you some information and you come up with a report on the company?
It is better. But truthfully, at senior, it's probably not enough to justify the added stress of the time crunch inherent in a deal environment.
What level are you?
Senior
The numbers were rounded and the line items were limited. They are just looking to see if you can ask trend based questions that are relevant in a deal. My advice would be to concentrate on working capital and on income statement. FWIW, they intentionally gave me an industry they knew I hadn't seen before but seasonality is a good topic to lean on if that happens to you
What do you want to know on the practice?
What's typical deal like? What kind of technical accounting questions did you get?
My audit background is in tech companies so I was asked stock comp questions. TAS people aren't GAAP technical so they like to lean on the heavy seniors or managers recently out of audit for that, if they can.
Deals can range from diligence on a carve out for a public company to working with targets running quickbooks. Hard to use "typical" for M&A in general but especially for the middle market, ha. I find it's less travel overall but when the travel is going to be is much more unpredictable compared to audit. I live on east coast and I got less than 24 hours notice to fly to San Jose for 4 days for my first deal.
Pay any better then audit?
I would imagine with the deadlines hours are probably a little higher?
Some projects you win the work the day the LOI is signed and have to get it done by the time the period of exclusivity is over. So like a month from SOW to issuance? Some sell side deals take 6 months. That said, hours goals are lower in TAS than they are in audit at every level. I think senior might've been like 150 hour difference in my market? The main driver of that difference is risk of deal volume. I can't say I've seen TAS people work less than auditors. If anything, I'd say they eat more hours.
RSM2 has provided you some great insight on TAS, OP. As someone in this service line, this is very very accurate