Thoughts on Perkins Coie in LA? L&E?

Hi,

I am looking for opportunities in Data Science, ML Engineering, MLOps.

YOE - 12 Years
Current Designation - Senior Data Scientist
Serving Notice period.
Can you refer me in your organization for similar roles.

Chris Stapleton might be a cool guy. Maybe he has some good music. But every time I hear him sing “drive on” during a Ram commercial I want to punch him in the face. Ram has overplayed that one.

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

With 11EOY, how much one can expect in MGL for Manager post !

My profile is Cloud / DevOps

What’s everyone doing right now? 🧐

My book is just spec and side projects. I’m trying to get a new junior-to-mid role because I’ve gotten nothing good produced where I’m at, and I have zero faith this will change if I stick around.

I’m asked for work samples from recruiters and CDs even though I make clear that what I’ve done doesn’t reflect who I am as a creative. Think CRM/DM/B2B stuff. They insist on it, and I never hear back afterwards.

Not sure what to do. Almost feel like I’d be better off erasing my agency experience.

Thoughts on exiting to Alteryx? Any good or bad stories?

Hi,
I am working as Data Analyst. Now, I seen my interest towards Data Engineering.

Please help me to decide, Should I go with
Azure Data Engineer
Or
with Big Data Technology like Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Sqoop, Airflow.

Suggest me some good course to start.

Thanks 😊

Is it true we need to return the joining bonus along with GST if we resign within a year in FIS?
What if someone resigns a week after his 1 year completion? Do they still need to pay?

Hi all. Trying to move from the US to France to be with my partner. Anybody able / willing to help provide insight for getting a visa and sponsorship? Which companies are likely to sponsor an American? I have a B2 level of French. Hoping to stay in ESG / sustainability, but willing to be flexible. Thanks!

When leaving as an audit manager, if you’re going to a competitor and they ask you to leave the day you give notice, do they always pay you out the 2 weeks or are you technically fired?

Any recommendations for companies open to former senior-level agency folks? Looking to make the switch in house and have 15 years experience working in oncology

What does being a “great lawyer” mean to you? The term is thrown around so frequently, it sometimes loses its meaning and probably means entirely different things to different people.

Is Unity or Unreal better for beginner game devs?

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

Working for Zs almost 2.5 years.. I didn't know bowl like this exists at all. Now a bit relieved.

Hello all.

My firm’s holiday party is on a weekday after work. I can just wear what I’d normally wear to work for that day, right?

For anyone who is burnt out and looking to leave big law and go to a midsize, do your research. I was one of those people and I can tell you the grass is NOT greener on the other side. It’s a myth. In retrospect, I should’ve stayed and set better boundaries and not have taken this 35% pay cut.

What should your realization rate be as a first year? I have not gotten any negative feedback but my realization rate seems...bad

Best NY firms for capital markets that's not just a UW-side sweatshop? Bonus points if anyone has heard or remotely thought that the group was actually nice-ish/collegial-ish.

Senpais, looking back, if you had known more about your specialty, would you still have chosen it? If not, which specialty would you have preferred to enter? And why?

Is it a fail of character leaving biglaw? I want to leave, but despite the constant stress and suffering, I can’t avoid feeling like it’s my fault or that maybe I’m over exaggerating how I feel. All my colleagues feel ridiculously happy, I’m the grinch one that’s never enjoying the grind (but the grind is hard and competitive, very competitive) :( any thoughts? Is there future after quitting biglaw so young?

Anyone ever register an expensive car in Montana under a LLC to avoid taxes?

Can I quit a job I started Monday? Lmao

Okay to renege on a lateral offer that I already accepted (prior to Covid-19 outbreak)? Anxiety is high moving in a time like this and now would rather stay put.

Advice for interviewing at Greenberg Traurig, or big law in general?

Senior attorneys at v100, how common is it for attorneys who start at small firms to lateral to biglaw? Have you worked with any? Conventional wisdom is always that if you don’t start there it’s hard to “trade up”. My coworker and I just did it to two different great v30 firms, and I’m wondering if it’s really that uncommon? Just out of curiosity. We’re not special counsel with special niche skills or anything, just associates. Pitfalls to beware? Positives?

I am an m&a junior at a firm that is generally considered a lifestyle firm (pay below market but target hours are lower unless pushing for partner). Over the pandemic period, we have had so many senior associates and paralegals leave that there is no one to ask questions to and I’m doing paralegal work (we are all in survival mode). I’m not convinced the partners in my team (who are aware of the problem but cannot convince management) can recruit people to replace given we pay below market.

Boston biglaw associates, do you pay for monthly parking and drive into the office? Or do you still ride the T?

I’m a first yr in NYC biglaw (2nd yr in Fall) — is 3.2k for one bedroom in BK (think downtown BK, carroll garden, Williamsburg) too much? Always have lived in manhattan so I’m not sure what reasonable rent for one bedroom in BK is.

I know that some other associates at my level are approximately 30% behind other associates in hours on a month to month basis. Yet all of these associates say they are “at capacity”, and myself and another associate still end up being assigned work instead of them. How do we handle this? For reference, all associates are around the firms minimum requirement, it’s just that a few of us are 30+% over and it is leading to burnout.

A lot of negativity these days. What are you grateful for at the moment?

Anyone here use any recruiters at Springboard? How was the experience?

Thoughts on Ogletree as an associate? Salary/day to day life

What firms are pushing/expected to require/have formally required return to office after Labor Day?

Best to Worst in terms of work-life balance: Tech Trans, M&A or Capital Markets? (California if that makes a difference)