Those who have seen a drastic reduction in their billable hours with no pay cuts, layoffs, furloughs, etc., what have you done to stir up some work and keep yours hours at a reasonable level?

Hi All, need suggestion in choosing new opportunity & role. Currently working as AWS Engineer with 6.5 YOE. Having opportunities: 1. AWS Developer -Deloitte USI - 15fixed + 0-10% Variable + 4LJB (retention bonus) 2. Sr security Analyst - AWS IAM - Sony India software centre - 17.5fixed + 3L Variable. Im very much interested in AWS Developer role but scared of WLB at Deloitte. Sony have a very good reviews and pay also better only concern here it is cloud security and limited to only AWS IAM.

With so much uncertainty in the economy and waves of layoffs that have hit tech especially hard... do we think there's really such a thing as a recession-proof job anymore if you're not an "essential worker"?

Trying to help my retired dad - When I google for what to do after retirement, only retirement planning related things shows up. My dad has been a workaholic and hasn’t developed many hobbies he could pursue. I was wondering how I could help him stay slightly occupied if not busy. Anyone here experienced this with your parents or yourself? How did you navigate this?

Working at a company and they can’t seem to hold on to their female, black and people of color employees. I blinked and 3 of the people who were in my onboarding class were either fired or they left. For context I’ve been in company less than a year and there are people who have been in the company 25yrs. I’m thinking of cutting loose before it gets to my turn.

Any ZScaler Commercial AEs here?

Just got a call about a 96k base:
/160k OTE role out of Plano TX

I’m intrigued but I want to know 2 things:
1. Culture/WLB - how is it?
2. Realistic market opportunity/opportunity to crush quota (obv dependent on many things)

Background: Currently making 95k/160k OTE at a boutique research and consulting firm. I’m happy but we’re extremely flat with little to no opp for promotion in the next 2+ years.

I’ve practiced litigation in DC for about 5+ years at a larger plaintiffs’ firm, and am considering a switch to a defense firm. Is there any insight to how many billable hours this would require, and how much time that would actually be? For reference, the firm has a 1900 billable hour requirement and the partner said I would have “no problem” fulfilling that based on the work they have.

I'm wondering what everyone thinks about layoffs in recruiting?

YOE: 3.1 years
Current CTC: 9.5 LPA all fixed
Tech stack: Java
I have following job offers:
UKG: 18 LPA (16 fixed) + 1 Lakh JB
Snapdeal: 22LPA (20 fixed)
Freecharge: HR discussion is pending but would offer more than 20 LPA

Not sure what to choose, designation is SSE in every company.
I want good work culture, WLB, good tech stack.
Also, I have 1 month NP left, can you suggest me some good companies to apply?

PS: New to fishbowl

If you asked to be considered for early promotion and didn’t get it (despite being highly rated, exceeding billable goal, etc) would you look elsewhere? Is it right to be angry about it? I don’t want to spin myself up unnecessarily if it’s unjustified

I made a couple errors at a new job. An important document to be distributed had wrong information on it, which was proofread by 2 other people. Then a couple of typos in emails, the person micromanaging me told me to send out but I didn’t fix the errors. Failed to meet a deadline but completed 95%. I was written up over all this last week, fired this week. There’s a lot more to this but I think it’s because the DM doesn’t like me.

Want to know abbvie work life balance at Abbvie, Worcester, MA site?

Best consulting firms with best WLB? Do they exist? Young professional starting to think about where I'd like to work hard to end up in the next 5-10 years.

Hearing of layoffs with some Chicago agencies. MSL...Porter...Ketchum...others? Sign of bad economy coming? Hate to sound skittish, but I lived through 2008

Which is better to join Capgemini or IBM with same fixed components considering work life balance.

Hi, I had a query. I have received offer for Data Engineering Position while having an experience of Oracle Apps EBS. Wanted to understand how I can utilise my existing Skillsets to assist in the data engineering role offered, Or Shall I work on enhancing my Skillsets accordingly so as to map the role offered?
Thanks in advance.

Hello, I am in USI GES tax at DUSI. I love my job but not my team and mgmt anymore. I'm a performer and I'm dumped with work of 2 ppl while others are searching for work. I am burned out.

I resigned and accepted a job with EY GDS with a huge pay bump that DUSI can't match but I also gave up my potential promotion for 2023.

I've been feeling bad about putting my papers down and letting go off my promotion but I am really tired. I took up this job as an escape.

Did i do the right thing?

Favorite law firm Instagram account?

I have a valid coe and visa of Japan how to search jobs in Japan from India

after receiving the portal link to accept the offer letter, what is the deadline to I accept it?

God, I miss my nice/peaceful commute home. Listening to a podcast in traffic was one of the highlights of my day

We assess fraud risk factors at our clients, but are Big 4 auditors not the most susceptible to committing fraud? Pressure = Get work done better and faster than last year. Continued...

Has anyone taken  ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)? Any comments/ reviews? How has it enhanced your employability? Why did you take the CGSS?

Got offered a pharma/healthcare role (currently work consumer side). 15% more than current role, lateral move, remote for now of course. Not sure if I should take the offer or not, given I have no experience in pharma & health. I said I would sleep on it. Advice?

Is relieving letter mandatory for onboarding into TCS? Because relieving letter will be provided only after 10days after completion of fnf settlement and my joining date is just next day of my LWD. Please help??

Is there anyone who is working on SAP Fiori,Ui5 ?
Need some suggestions.

Brillio is Hiring !!!

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What sort of pay structure is for Microsoft in London. Technology consulting - solutions architect.

What should be the ideal salary of cloud/devops engineer with 12 years of exp and having exp of working for multiple e-commerce companies.

Aside from just time and experience, is there anything I can actively do to advance in my career and get more responsibility / client interaction? I’m a first year

Has anyone taken  ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)? Any comments/ reviews? How has it enhanced your employability? Why did you take the CGSS?

I'm moving my firm to a non hourly model. I want to encourage efficiency and discourage the work your life away model.

For litgation we're thinking past pleadings and MTDS then X, Discovery than Y, SMJ motions then Z trial then Q.

What are your thoughts on this ? What are my issues here. I think the hardest one is to predict discovery. But I also think we can outsource some of this to cheeper labor and lean on our tech to not actually have to review everything.

I have a promising interview at a relatively large law firm in my area (+100 attorneys) next week. The position is for a transactional role in their real estate practice group, and they are seeking someone with at least 2 YOE. I have a bit over 7 YOE with a strong real estate/commercial lit. background. Over the past two years in my current position, I've been doing a lot more transactional work. The split is around 50% transactional and 50% lit.

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Does your firm deal well with associates who need religious accommodations? If e.g. they’re observing Shabbat, do you always make sure to have at least someone on the team who isn’t? Are you even allowed to ask? Pardon my ignorance.

Fifth year labor and employment associate at Big4 L&E firm (think Littler) and am considering making a move into big law (think Jones Day, Goodwin, etc.) Any thoughts on if it’s worth it this late in my associate career? Also, do those big firms take 6-8 year L&E laterals?

Do you keep offering circulars/memoranda from a financial printer when you leave a firm? I have a few (some private, some public) and I’m not sure what to do with them.

Considering accepting a fully remote role and living in different cities for 6+ months at a time. Anyone else do this and have experiences to share?

Does anyone know the typical salary for a 1st-2nd year associate at Lewis Brisbois in Los Angeles? L&E

Does anybody work in a rule for a litigation finance or legal funding company who doesn't hail from a big law firm in background? Basically I have a lot of interest in the area have read a book about it in my free time and was wondering what sort of entry level opportunities I should be seeking.

So the feeling that you’re forgetting something important because you have so much on your plate…that never goes away right?

What was the most memorable pro bono project you've worked on?

Is 150 billable hours per month little/average/a lot?

What’s the over/under that all the firms “strongly encouraging” their attorneys to return to the office after Labor Day will have to push that date back again?

Is it normal or ideal to continue working on a deal in your last week at the firm?

Can anyone recommend a recruiter for a US JD looking to move to London? Also, does anyone have any advice for a US litigator looking for a job in the UK? I’m open to anything, including non-legal roles.

Thank you!

Has anyone else noticed that a hugely disproportionate number of latinx big law attorneys seem to be white / white-passing?

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

What types of lit mid law or boutiques are better WLB than big law? Is this even a thing or just a myth?

Dumb question: If a firm wants to run a conflicts, do you just type up a list or do you request from current firm?