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Hi Team,
Need your suggestions on Fractal VS UBS.
I am a Sr Big Data Engineer in Barclays. Recently i got an offer from UBS for Big Data Engineer and got one more offer for same package from Fractal Analytics for the same kind of profile.
Could you please help me to decide that what should the best option for my carrer as a Big Data Engineer.
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You've had shitty reviews and Have possibly been put in a performance improvement plan. What was your rating at the most recent round tables?
#1 You are a resource to the firm and mean nothing, so understand that. If you stick it out until senior above your opinion may actually matter.
#2 Once you start on the road diverging from audit projects, youre headed downhill. You were hired as an audit associate, not a risk assurance associate. Don't waste a busy season.
#3 Kissing a** in audit is the way to get booked on jobs unfortunately in this practice so if you're not an a** kisser youre in the wrong industry cause youll get thrown on any project.
Does that mean me low performer
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You definitely need to be on audit clients though and this second year is critical as you learn a lot during this year. So if PwC won't put you on audit clients then find a firm that will. I imagine PwC will work with you though. It's expensive to hire employees and they put a lot of time and money into new hires. With all the trainings they've invested over $200K in you easy. They're not in the business of losing employees after 1 year. Stay calm, talk to HR. Be assertive about your goals. I think things will work out.
Yeah I understand what you mean I honestly feel totally lost now and overwhelmed after reading all this. I feel like I missed out on a lot already that's what most concerned about but I will take ur advice to heart
Don't feel overwhelmed. Take a deep breath and express your concerns to HR on Monday. Start reaching out to the other firms. Be proactive about it and things will work out.
^HR does all the staffing....
Lol @ senior 1 telling op to go to ey or deloitte but not kpmg. Let me guess, we're back in college where we do a d!ck measuring contest to see which firm is the coolest 😏
^No, it's just common knowledge that KPMG is the shittiest of the B4. The only people who don't think that are working for KPMG...
^as said from someone whose not B4. How would you know what things are like at B4 if you don't work for B4?
Trust me in this one. KPMG is clearly #4 in audit. They've got other divisions that are good (very good TS practice), but they lag in audit behind the others. I know what I'm talking about.
^work done for other divisions definitely won't be looked at in CRT. The firm always says this but it's just not true. Preference is given to employees that work within the market team. The managers you work for on out of town assignments won't be there to have their voice heard. This is just spin HR gives so people don't bitch about taking assignments outside their market team.
^obviously the managers/senior managers have to accept the person, but they don't drive the process. HR will look at scheduling, see whose available, and then ask the manager/SM on whether they want the available employee or not.
Either way it doesn't matter if this person speaks with their coach or HR. Point is they need to be proactive and speak with someone instead of just floating along and accepting engagements outside of audit. I agree that a coach/partner would be a good contact point as well.
Senior 1 you are naive. That's not how it works. If the person is on the availability list I don't want them.
Why wouldn't u want them ?
Bc I don't know who they are. Networking is huge. If I know your name I may pick you up if there's a need. You can start cold emailing the senior managers on large jobs (have an elevator speech in your email - went to X school, finished my cpa, interested in your industry) and see if that might get your name out there. I am always skeptical of anyone that HR tries to sell me but if you reached out to me I may be willing to consider.
I think you proved my point SM. You won't take staff you don't know. Therefore, being unassigned and staffed on RA projects is detrimental to this persons career. They need to get on audit projects within their market team. To do that they need to speak with someone (coach/partner/etc...). If they can't get on audit projects at PwC then they need to change to a firm where they can get staffed.
Senior 1 agree 100 % unless the RA project is internal controls in which case I'd argue that is fine because they'd get better at that than their peers and can make up the rest
good point. If it's just testing internal controls for IA then they wouldn't get behind in the learning curve.
Yea I mean the OP would be light on substantive testing but you could make it up later on. No different than getting stuck on controls on a big audit. OP - what is the risk assurance work you're doing??