To all who have an MSA or equivelent, please share how having a Masters in Accounting has benefited you.

I am studying for my CPA, have already taken FAR and AUD with results pending. I am a consultant at an accounting firm and feel I will not live up unless I progress with a masters or obtain my license as CPA 👩‍💼 and curious if obtaining an MSA is worth it…

Can someone offer some advice on how to potentially join finance transformation at the Big 4?

What are actionable items one should strive for when trying to grow as a designer after landing their first role? I hear a lot about ways to grow to land the first job but very little about how to improve after you know the basics.

Lender Due Diligence thoughts compared to FDD and potential career path?

My wife is a Software engineer - QA with 2 Yoe, now we are thinking to move to Canada, can someone please guide us on which 2 year course can she pick (for student visa), is data science related course a wise decision? Or how to find a QA related PG program.
Preferably in Victoria, British Columbia

I'm an immigrant from Brazil and I'm evaluating my civil engineering degree and starting from scratch.
I did internship in civil engineering during the entire period of college and worked another year after graduating, which totaled 6 years of experience. I would like to know how the job market is like for immigrants in the field of civil engineering in the US and what advice would you give to someone who is starting over and improving in this area?

Who is in the dental field?

Is it normal for PPMD to jump around? I feel like I’ve met a few that have spent time as PPMD at different firms or have just recently joined EY from another Big 4/competitor.

I have been offered a position at a non-US B4 with a 2 year path to partner. I know one of the partners at the local firm and have the support of the regional service line lead, and am bringing a specialized skill set they are trying to open a new business around. The KPIs seem achievable and I’ll be in charm school to help build support within that timeline. Most of me thinks a 2 year path under these circumstances realistic but my inner skeptic is jaded. Anything I might have missed?

Hi! I got an offer with Standard Chartered India. What does Grade 7 Band 7 mean? and I got a role as Specialist, Product engineer. Is this equivalent to senior software engineer ? Or relevant to manager? What is senior engineer is know in SCB?

Thanks in advance!

Can someone please suggest me a good course on Salesforce?

I am a starter and have zero knowledge about Salesforce

how many YOE are needed to come in as Consultant at BCG with no MBA?

Received offer from BCG for ECT AD role. Read numerous comments about ECT being not attractive compared to Generalists track. Also heard challenges about billability/utilization. Any views/guidance is appreciated.

Background - I am not super keen to become an equity partner and comfortable to stay on ECT track. Main reason to join will be opportunity to work with different clients, smart talented people and good brand. I may consider going back to industry after 3-5 years in ECT.

How hard is the path from lit to GC?

I just got into reading books, any suggestions to start with? Which could help to increase media/marketing knowledge.

If you start as a Program Manager, how/when do you begin to advise people as a people lead? I’ve heard Program Managers are not people leads. I started lead a team of 3 about a month ago at my current job and don’t want to lose leadership experience but have been told my YOE would map to a Program Manager level at Google.

Does anyone have any advice for a recent masters graduate looking to move into product marketing? My professional experience is mostly in brand, social and event marketing, but after completing grad school, I’ve realized that I’d love to get into the product side of things. Unfortunately, 95% of the PMM roles I’ve come upon want 5 years of actual product marketing experience. So any advice for breaking into this area would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance 😊

Hi All,

I got senior specialist position in HCL. Can anyone please help me with the roles and responsibilities.

Experience : 4.5 years

Is this position good enough for this much much of experience?

IAPP is such trash. Why does everyone recommend getting the CIPP certs when they mean nothing??

Hi sharks, I am currently working in automation testing role with skill set robot framework + python. I learnt selenium + java out of interest. Over all experience is 5 years. I am not getting interest in testing now. Wanted to switch career as data professional, data engineer to be precise (after doing some basic study). My present knowledge is conversant level, I started a online course. Is it possible for me to switch career now ? My doubt is without real experience can I manage with course ?

Hi Fishes, I immediately need to switch my role related to Data science/ML/AI with good hike. Suggest some companies and ways. I'm willing to learn new things after deployment.

YOE : 1.5 years as Python developer

Skills : C, Python, Excel in writing SQL queries, Swagger, Microservices, PostgreSql Aws(Lambda, Api gateway, SNS, SQS), Angularjs, PHP.

Any advice for staying concentrated? I’m constantly getting distracted by anything and everything. 😣

Working with a Junior AD who’s too opinionated & doesn’t respond to my feedback well. He’ll just show ideas that I’ve already debunked/scripts that aren’t very good, which makes me look bad. Advice?

Are puns always bad? I like them as cheat codes for making boring things slightly more entertaining. I don’t want to spend hours thinking for a line for a social post we are just doing to fill up a content calendar

What questions should I ask a candidate during an interview for a community manager job?

I’m a 40-year-old agent and it feels like it’s now or never for following my passion. Does a newbie to film at my age have any chance of breaking into the industry?

I’m doing my own marketing for my small business and am having trouble creating call to actions that convert. Where can I learn more about this?

Anyone got a direction to WFO atleast 1-2 days starting Jan? Gurgaon office.

Is it expected/normal to get pregnant spouse Mother’s Day gift?

How would you feel going on vacation with friends who want to bring their kid along too?

Why does the purchase agreement call for a FIRPTA when no real estate is being purchased?

How long is it taking for new joiners to receive their laptops if they asked it to be shipped?

Got an offer for TY, would receive Lynch and Fitz/Keelan Cole. Would have to drop Crowell or a TE to facilitate the roster space. Think it’s a fair offer, but would you take it? 14 team, .5 PPR

Start Justin Jackson or ekeler if Melvin Gordon can’t play.... tough....fantasy playoff

How do people feel about Tesla ? Buy ?

GSP San Fran or Leo Chicago?

Recently relocated to USA. Looking for a job in Private equity Accounting in California as Fund Accountant Manager. Any leads and also, how much salary should I expect?

I’m currently interviewing for an AS role which would be a bit of a pay cut, but I’ll get to learn a lot so I’m interested. Any tips on how to approach the negotiation convo if/when that comes, besides asking to at least meet me halfway re:salary? They already provide unlimited PTO and free health benefits(which is nice).

Anyone studying for EA or completed EA recently? If so, which materials are the best ?

What would you do to deal with people who drive too slow in the fast lane? This is a scenario where you are the king/Queen of the world for a day.

Does all D tax not give raises from staff 1 to 2?

Who is going to Discover in December?

When is your tier rating for the FY18 locked in? Is your tier rating already official?

In DC for next week. What’s good around here? Gonna catch a Nats game and Skins practice. Hit up some museums and monuments. What about food or bars? Anything else not known?

What’s the difference between ED and partners? How does one become an ED vs partner?

Just got a jury summons and wrote in my occupation as accountant. What do you normally put on documents? CPA, Accountant, Auditor?

I hate to see good people go because of money. Why don't the firms just pay them more? It's almost impossible to find new replacement managers and so it would be worth it to pay up.

Ever since Risk Assurance busy season ended, I feel like I’ve been kind of coasting. I’m still getting all my work done but my utilization is slipping. With CRTs coming up, how worried should I be?

Despite failing or losing parts of the CPA exams, let's not forget we still got promoted and some increase in pay.

That moment when youre searching for a new job on your work laptop, you work forgetting about the open tabs, have issues with your laptop so service desk remotes in and sees the tabs with the search😨

Wiley or Gleim which one is better?

Have a phone screen with a recruiter today. Dodged the salary requirements question in the application but I know it will be asked in the phone screen. If they ask me, can I turn the q on them?

Bank is asking for verification of employment in securing mortgage. What contact should I give at KPMG?

Does anyone have any good books or podcasts about how to develop leadership/ managing skills?

Has anyone else had both markers dry out during a CPA exam? It's happened to me both times I've taken it.

Anyone here going through New Jersey for CPA license?

Interested to hear more of your experience especially about the extra forms we need to submit! Already passed REG, AUD, and FAR. Planning to take BEC in Oct/Nov.

Is it possible to make SM after being MGR only 2 years? Was 5 star rated as MGR 1 and gold standard as MGR 2.

Have an opportunity to go to industry in a non tax role (I’m a tax Sr) Is it worth the lateral pay move to get out now or wait a little longer for a tax role with the big bump in pay?

Public accounting (audit) 2 years -> industry 1 year -> just accepted job in PE consulting and now making (low)6 fig salary. Missed the constant challenge/working with multiple clients. Thoughts?