My girlfriend thinks Big 4 is a pyramid scheme and they're breaking the law.

I’m a technical consultant but sick of the low pay and bad benefits at SI firms. I have some opportunities at Big 4 with better pay & benefits. Will it derail my career to move to Big 4?

Hi fishes,

I received an offer from big 4 with 60% hike. My managers wants to retain and I asked them to match if you want me to be retained.
Now I got a call from GPM yesterday. He used harsh words like "being greedy" "selfish" etc and offered me 30% in the end.
I politely declined but he asked me to reconsider as he said "it would be unfair for the org for you to leave so soon."

Let me know a proper response.

Also what do you think of this behavior by GPM?

Interviewing with a small (50 people) boutique firm in a management position. They are in an industry I have 10 years of experience plus I have 5 years management consulting experience in B4 firm. Assuming the pay and potential bonus are reasonable what kind of challenges would I be in for? I already understand this would be a risk to join and help them grow but if I were successful I think it could be very rewarding.

Has anyone moved from B4 to a startup biotech? Position seems really interesting but overall seems risky. They’ve only had a Series A financing

I know EY early promotes had their comp discussions and was curious what other big 4’s are seeing in terms of raises this year due to covid

Is it possible to jump from senior to manager if I switched firms? Doesn’t have to be a big 4...

I’m a senior at KPMG interested in switching to another Big 4 firm and group. However, KPMG is currently paying for my masters which requires me to work an additional 3+ years at the firm in order for

Is it worth making the jump from B4 audit to Mazars transaction Advisory/FDD group?

Hi Fishes,

Can anyone help me with a referral in Bain & Co. For the role of Associate/Senior Associate?

I have 3.2 years of experience as a Business Analyst/Consultant in a Big 4 firm.

Thanks

Big 4 partners, can you provide any insights into the Partner v MD decision when you were up? Were you given the option? Can you share the pros v cons, especially from salary and pension standpoint.

Has anyone left big 4 or other PA firms tax transaction service groups for industry (or know of anyone)? What was the role and salary bump, how are annual bonuses/raises in industry, what is a typical work week (hours) like? I don’t think I can take this always on just to stay afloat life much longer. For context I am considered a high performer, am near the top of the salary band at my level and have a great supporting network at Deloitte. It’s just not worth it to have zero personal life.

Hoping this gets more traction here. Received two offers: 1. Manager role at another big 4 @ 160k. 2nd offer is Senior project manager role in industry @ 190k. Bonus % is about the same. Not sure cont

How does catalyst partner hire at PWC works? are they same as partners direct admits or internally promoted? is it worth leaving another big-4 equity partner role to join pwc as a catalyst hire ?

How is Big 4 client delivery experience + measurable technical skillsets/ experience viewed by AWS during interview process? I feel like their are so many posers in Big 4 in cyber, that gives a bad rap across.

What are the average age brackets at Big 4 to be a Con, Senior Con, Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Partner? Keen for people’s perspectives.

Are there certain firms that are more accepting of Tax backgrounds entering advisory positions? I’m a CPA with a couple years regional tax experience looking to transition to advisory/deals, but have struggled getting big 4 advisory interviews even with solid recommendations.
I’ve heard there’s solid opportunities in advisory type work for some other large firms outside big 4. Has anybody made a similar transition?

Hi all,

I'm currently working at Infosys as MSBI developer and looking for opportunity in any of Big 4. I noticed there is a job vacancy for the role I fit in PWC in Linkedin and here to check if anyone could help me with referral.

TIA.

What are my chances at M7?

White male, 3.6 GPA at top public school (like UVA), 700 GMAT, 3.5 years work experience (2y in big 4 MC, 1.5y in corp dev), letter of rec from HBS grad CFO of my company.

Can anyone refer me for a Assistant manager - Pursuit/deal advisory role in big 4? I have a total of 9.5 YOE in pre and post sales support. Please DM
PS- I worked with EY for 4 years as a Virtual Account Manager.

Which title is better Data Scientist or Analytics Manager

For people in consulting - do you often read books about project management and motivation? Would appreciate your recommendations (preferably the ones with more than one thought for the whole brick of text 🤨).

What are good product base companies in india planning to keep WFH? My current company is asking all employees for WFO at the Mumbai office. So I am looking for other options as well.

Hi I have total 2YOE in C# , but i wanted switch into Java, but many companies are asking Java experience, How can i approach companies to get a job as a Java Dev

Anyone here work in the brand partnerships/media landscape? Would love to grab a coffee! My experience is primarily in fashion but I feel like I need some insight into the market here. I’m from NYC.

Can someone help me understand (or point to a detailed resource) that highlights differences between IBM Infosphere, IGC, Information Server and Business Glossary?

Hi Guys,

Can anyone plz refer me for a Tosca Automation Engineer Opening. Looking for Pune location only.

Total Experience - 5.4
Relevant experience - 4.7
Tosca certifications - 16
Serving Notice period.

Hi All,
In the HR discussion, we both agreed on 30L CTC (10% Variable) and 1L joining bonus. But later after 2-3 days when they need to release the offer, HR is saying they got the approval for 28L CTC(10% variable) and 2L joining bonus.

Should I take that offer and look for other options or straight forward reject the offer and then look for other options?

Also, according to this behaviour of the HR, is it good behaviour?

How unprofessional is it to accept an offer and back out before your start date?

Is infosys onboarding laterals virtually or physical onboarding.?

Found out a male with way less experience and no produced work is getting hired next week and making a significant amount more. How do I bring this up in a review?

If the wife is the chief creative officer and the husband is a creative director within the same company, isn’t that a conflict of interest? Asking for ogilvy.

Which language is the best to learn for the future for the backend ? Java or Python ?

I am a NodeJS Engineer. I want to know which language to learn for the next 10-20 years.

I should be able to use the language multidimensionally. Like web development, ai/ml, offers jobs in MAANGM companies .

Anyone in NY have yet to see their credits extended to 6.30.21?

Taking FAR soon! Currently reviewing the book and wanted to see if y’all had any advice on what modules/sections to cover more then others? Been hearing Gov/NFP is a big one. Anyone care to share what the exam was like for them and what it mainly covered?

Anybody struggle with imposter syndrome as a minority? How and why? Need some coping strategies man.

Anyone else crave lazy days on the weekend but then feel super guilty for not being productive?

Every day is Monday

Anyone taken the CFE or CIA? Feedback is appreciated with respect to review courses and prep time. Thanks.

Did Deloitte disable Spark, the email app?

Feel like audit scheduling is always done on a knifes edge in that the timeline and staff schedules are enough so that if everyone works 60 hour weeks and no issues are identified then it can be filed on time. But even small things that increase the work can wildly throw off the schedule and cause hours to skyrocket for the staff on the job. No real point here, just ranting.

Is it worth making the jump from B4 audit to Mazars transaction Advisory/FDD group?

So what is this rumor about EY switching to biannual promotions and raises for assurance? Any validity to it?

Anyone here play Clash Royale. I'm addicted to this game. It's all I do besides study for the CPA exam

Has Deloitte tax heard anything about layoffs yet? Just saw the news about audit

Had 2 hours of billable work today 💀

Best way to casually come out to coworkers?

Has anyone worked in both an AAS practice and an FDD practice? What did you like more and why? Currently work in AAS and am pretty happy, but have always wondered if I would like FDD more.

Sounding more and more like leaving EY during the Mercury rollout was the right move.

Started calls at 6AM and still have hours of work to do.... what a week!

Supervisor wants me to take on bigger projects. I'm all for it. Yet, the extra hours I'm putting in already (short staffed) are an issue. Advice?

some efficient study methods please? thank you

My SM thought my staff should get 3 instead of 4. I rewrote the review, argued with SM and got 4 approved. Staff may not know what I did, but I feel proud of myself, just wanna be fair.

Ladies, Trying to to turn a ☘ and begin a new diet for the summer; what's your goto summer diet?

I am a new associate (1 month in mid-tier firm) and I struggle to get work to fill up the whole day. In honest time, i get about 3-5 billable hours a day. Am I going to get in trouble or fired over this?? I am putting my best efforts when I do get work and I ask for work sometimes. At this point I feel like I am being annoying too…

Client Connect is the biggest piece of shit. Can't purge or export documents (error); laggy as hell; can't manually set client passwords or delete old users. It's the GDM of software basically