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Interviewing with Apple next week for the roles of Global Supply Manager (GSM) and Worldwide Procurement Analyst in Austin. Does anyone have any tips or advice for the interview? What kind of questions do they ask?
Also, what’s the compensation like in Austin specifically? I would think the compensation would be different than Cupertino. Anyone have any offers or salaries for these positions in Austin?
What's is inhand salary 12.30lpa in TCS ?
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No. Most clients are not billed actuals, but whatever the estimates hours was in the scope.
Though what it could mean (and is likely and common, sadly) is that the agency is billing the client for two copywriters and then expecting you to do all of the work 🥴
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It depends on your Master Services Agreement with clients. Does your agency charge a predetermined cost for typical projects or is it hours based. If the latter, then yes, your agency is charging for your extra time. And you aren’t being paid OT unless you are a non-exempt employee. If you are working until 2AM your company hopefully gives you comp time or something to acknowledge the effort.
An 80 hour week was my life at Omnicom in NY and then I got out. I find it’s the norm in NYC vs outside. Most other places are frowning on burning people out like that esp in times of COVID.
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The scope will have estimates. That is the most the client will pay. In the rare instance the actual are lower, they’ll pay that.
This is the time of year where finance will
chase down any clients where we are under billing and make work to hit the hours.
I worked at an agency that charged by the hour, really miss that