Sometimes I take unused Westin soap bars and use them at home. Thought I’d share.

Anyone want to swap some Hyatt points for my Marriott points?

Justifying the Sheraton's painful bed to yourself because the Four Seasons don't recognize your loyalty

Need 6 Marriott nights to titanium (spend doesn’t matter). 1 - would any hotel manager cut you a deal? (Ie if 6 nights is 60k; let me pay 30k and get the nights and I won’t use the room?); 2 - where are cheapest Marriott hotels? I found 10k per night in burbs of Chicago? 3 - would any cheap Marriott let me run this scam remotely? (Ie call Abilene Texas, check me in without my showing up)

Anyone stay at the W Costa Rica? Planning a trip to Costa Rica and trying to decide between that and the all inclusive Westin right next door.

Anyone ever stayed at Westin Tokyo? Is the concierge lounge any good?

Can someone explain the Marriott status process to me? I am one year away from hitting life time status but doesn’t look like I am going to hit the 75 nights this year to keep titanium. (Cont. below)

What's the best luxury points hotel in Kyoto? Deciding between the Suiran Kyoto and the Ritz.

Current Titanium member, so considerations are service, hard product quality, location, and elite recognition. TIA!

What is the tipping etiquette on the free platinum breakfast in a JW Marriott? The server just gets coffee / orange juice and you serve yourself. It is an overpriced buffet that I would never dine in.

Any Hilton recs in Charleston?

Sheraton bed or the Westin bed in terms of good night sleep? In other words, If you had to buy one which one would you go for?

Anyone stay at the Ritz-Carleton in D.C.? I’ve never stayed at a Ritz location so I’m curious to hear what to expect. Will be in D.C. for a conference so my firm is covering the trip.

Merged my account this morning. Quite a sentimental moment to delete my SPG app. Bye bye you purple little guy

What is everyone’s thoughts about Hilton? Just got asked to interview

First trip to Atlanta in a couple of weeks for a training. Staying at the Westin Peachtree. Anyone have recommendations for fun places to drink/things to do?

Found a bed bug in a Radisson Red in Campinas Brazil, how many points?

Hi, will be staying in London next week. Does anyone have an Accenture rate code for the Marriot / Hilton in London?

Almost 4 weeks in and my status is still wrong. It was correct for the first ~1 day and then bumped down a level. Shouldn’t be hard as all my nights last year were SPG. This is ridiculous.

Looking to buy 40,000 Marriott points. Happy to pay $200!. Let me know your offers!

Hey all, deciding between two properties in Miami for this weekend - W Miami or the JW Marriott (not marquis). The W is about $325/night all-in while the JW is 40k pts/night. Which one is better?

Should probably start Chanukah shopping soon, huh?

What are some books that have absolutely helped you either working in the investment management space or even just personal investing?

Raise your hand if you’re going to finish April sub 100 billables 🙋🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Hi what should be the CTC for a Director cloud? Any suggestions

Anyone going after any cheap Hail Mary plays for the week? Looking to put ~$200 to work but it’ll likely be a gamble.

Are employers withdrawing i140 after employee quit even if the I140 was approved 3 years back. Wife is on H4EAD what is the impact if I140 is withdrawn?

Hey, I have around 4.5 yoe, curr CTC 14.2 LPA fixed, I got an offer from Optum Labs @ Grade 27, What would be ideal salary for my exp level and grade*. Location : BLR

Hi.. I am happy to join here. Seems to be an amazing platform.

Learning cloud architecture right now so apologies if these are obvious questions: Best ways to store video metadata to perform analysis on it? I'm looking at AWS and GCP. Saw that Cassandra would be good for it, but not sure what the GCP equivalent is? But also I'm a bit confused on if Cassandra is just a DB and storage would need to be elsewhere? All help is welcome! I've been spinning my wheels on Google trying to understand

Hi Fishes,
Need advice.
I am currently working at a prod based company as a QA Engineer in a maintenance project. I joined 7 months back. They offerred me an SDET+DevOps role. And all this while I was mostly working on manual. There is no scope and value to automation in this project.

I have an offer from a service based company with 25% hike from my current ctc. They have offered a API automation project.

Is it wise to leave now or should I wait for an year?

Where are you from?

Has anyone here found success as a marketing consultant? I’m interested in one day becoming one and I’m curious what the timeline and type of experiences I should expect to go through before getting there.

Hello Fishes,

I have total 4years of experience (joined my current company last year). Current package is 7.5LPA.
I am happy with my work life right now but need the hike. Also i am working as frontend developer (react.js) but my tech stack is MERN and i also have about 1year experience with springboot. In my current company my ctc will be revised on January,2023  as i am not completing 365 days before July 1(only missing for a couple of days). What should i do right now? What should be my ctc

Once you join a MF in Europe in investment team, how common are lateral moves? Can you get go up a level if you make one and have some years of experience?

Justifying the Sheraton's painful bed to yourself because the Four Seasons don't recognize your loyalty

Has anyone undergone a significant career upgrade via Part Time MBA? If so what program? And what was OCR recruiting like (if it exists)?

Thoughts on KPMG Ignition?

Person on team call just asked us if we remembered factoring and then asked for the factors of 10. Awkward silence ensued 😐 *facepalm*

I’ve been on the bench with less than 10% utilization for 3wks now. I’m a first year and the past month has been slower with not many new projects coming in. I do see a few new projects come in every week but I’m not getting staffed on them. Should I be worried? Should I ask my PM if I should be worried? We’re in a pretty small group less than 20 people

Hey all, can you pls recommend resources to get up to speed on Fraud and Risk management for Payments in fintech? Books /sites? I’m not in consulting anymore so no access to internal decks. Thanks!

What do the top performers of your office do -stay or leave?
I have the feeling most of my office leave (primarily for PE)... How is it in your office?

Just saw someone get fired on the spot at the client site...

Best books on leadership and self development?

Getting married soon..looking to buy a house. Do I spend 250k for suburbs with long commute to downtown? Or $450 for house closer to downtown? 1h v 30m commute. But no guarantee I'll work downtown.

Looking for some material for a crash course in IT strategy consulting - books article etc. any recommendations would be appreciated

I am plat exec on AA and wife wants to purchase ticket to Europe (traveling alone). Any benefits of booking it through my account (and assigning her FF#) or none?

Still struggling to figure out how to easily use a budget app like YNAB with expenses/reimbursements. I thought about dedicating a checking acct and CC to expenses - any best practices?

Been with D for 8 months. This is my 2nd job in 2.5 years but thinking of jumping ship with all the lay-offs in my area. Will I be seen as a job hopper? Really like it here don’t want to be laid off.

best place to get Disney World tix? Seeing $135 on the website (which is fine) but if they can be cheaper than I will let them!

Housekeeping knocks on door...Me: 💩💩😷..."Um... Still here!"

Let's have a productive conversation about the Google employee who was just fired for his controversial diversity memo

What are the best consulting firms for pricing (consumer goods focused)?

Recommendations for a wfh office chair? Preferably on the lower end of the range with good height.