What are your thoughts on Project Management Institute (PMI)? The PMP exam serves as a good signal for pm's, but is PMI itself highly respected or viewed as dated/part of a saturated market?

FDD 🐠 I will be promoted to audit SM in October, however looking to transfer to the FDD practice. Based on discussions with partners in the practice, I would be brought in as an experienced manager with opportunity to promote to senior manager in FDD next year. Is the learning curve steep, or should I push to come in as SM? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Fishes need your suggestions please. I have an interview with PWC for GCP DE Manager, currently working in pure technical role as data engineer. YoE 12.5, cctc 10.5 and holding offers till 23.5 fixed and few more in pipeline, expecting till 27 with 40 days left in np. How much can I ask for a senior manager level in PWC AC Bangalore and how difficult is the work and transition from pure technical to managerial role? I am still bit reluctant to leave tech side, is it good in long run?

Career Sabbatical?

Can anyone who has taken a career sabbatical to travel/explore other interests share their experience with both leaving their jobs and returning to the legal field?
I really want to live in Asia for a year at least before I have to settle down and start a family. I’m not getting younger but don’t want to be reckless with my career.

Are there any disadvantages of joining a C2H role purely on the basis of high CTC even though it is for a big client of the contractor company?

Hello All! I’m strongly considering a management position with Penn Medicine. I would love some feedback. I left my last company because of work/life balance. It’s essential for me. Is the money worth it? Any help would be appreciated.

What are the salaries like at level 9 & 10 for management consulting in digital commerce at Accenture strategy? My profile: 4 years tech experience in e-commerce and data + MBA from tier 2 bschool + ecommerce BA experience at Capgemini

Once you get into a FAANG company, is it better to stay where you are or move around? I’m a dissatisfied with my current job but I have vesting stocks, work 9-5, and people to know and respect me. I am the sole provider for my family and value quality of life and stability. I have some interview requests from other FAANG companies that I know pay more but I worry about starting over. Anyone switch companies and either regret it or are glad they did?

Hi Fishes,
I joined my current organization 3 months back.
Didnt allocated any project yet.

Now i am looking for a change:
Can someone refer me:
YOE :8.9
Location: Bangalore
Notice period: 30days
DOB : 01/06/1991
skills: java, spring boot, hibernate.

Thanks in advance

Can anyone talk about the fixed income research role (Hours, daily tasks/projects, exits opps/career progression)? Is a Masters needed or can you start as analyst as opposed to associate? Any insight is greatly appreciated!

Looking to transition out of a clinical role to a “clinical data/tech role” to help bridge the gap between healthcare tech and implementation to healthcare companies/field clinicians. Any recommendations to look for healthcare tech companies or getting started for a clinical data training?

How difficult would a move from Southern Europe strategy tier 2 to London strategy tier 2 be?

Has anyone received equity as contingency comp? I have a potential client with a founders dispute. He doesn’t have cash, and the other founder ripped him off and is now running the company. He wants to sue for equity and wants to pay me with whatever equity he wins. I’ve never done a deal like that. Is that even enforceable? CA law. The startup is actually quite promising.

Are there any roles in Big 4 for Computer Science majors? Not looking for tech strategy or implementation etc which don’t need hardcore CS skills.

Is it a red flag when a recruiter talks about unrealistic benefits like getting a chance to fly to another state just to visit the client HQ all expense-free? Or is it really a thing? Let me know if you have experience like this.

Hello Fishes,
I need a suggestion.
I have 3.3 YoE in sap po with knowledge of sap abap.
I am interested to work in development for po and abap both. Now i am in po sustain team but in a good project.
Should I switch? Is there any future or opportunities as sap abap and po developer?

How can one transition from a Visual/graphic designer in marketing to a product designer? And what’s it like being a product designer w a visual design background? Will you completely leave behind the graphic design world or are you still wearing many hats and still fulfilling that design and creative buzz? What courses, or resources do you have to make that jump? Can my portfolio have made up projects for this? I feel like I’m starting all over in design school! Haha.

Hello, I am a junior business administrator working in advisory operations. I have been with the company for 6 months, and was employed along with 2 other colleagues. I have picked the job up really fast and am even doing some “extra curricula’s” I really love my job. However I have recently found out I am being paid the same as an apprentice on my team, I usually do at 3 x the work he does whilst also doing my Cert CII. It has really disheartened me and I feel I should be earning more money

Any directors jump to make P? How did it go? Tips to share?

Anyone who moved from offshore audit practices to industry for better WLB?

Yesterday #AltonSterling, today #FalconHeightsShooting.. Needs to stop 😔

What's your ideal PTO? Activity and length of time off?

Good bar spots around 345 park (KPMG) lol

There's a ton of self help and leadership books out there to help people in their careers. If there was one that was written front the lense of a public accounting, would you read it?

Anyone work for CSAA or any other AAA company? What do you do and how do you like it?

Anyone working in appdynamics??

Dear Sir/ Mam , now i am doing SAP Fico traing , i have completed B.com in 2012.
I have 6 year experience as a admin
Is it currently available job in market,
Any refferal

Looking for good book recommendations for my Kindle. No genre specially open to anything!

How do you deal with the following - 1) lack of general organization in life, note taking, keeping track of your relationships and 2) attention to detail. These 2 things have been bothering me a lot. We all are smart as hell but silly mistakes such as spelling mistakes, broader checks to be done on the deck is killing me. Also I feel the lack of organization in personal life blows into professional as well. If you are a consultant how do u deal with it ?

What is with potential employers asking if I have kids? This is the third time this year it’s happened. Doesn’t everyone know it’s illegal, discriminatory, and potentially EXTREMELY insensitive/offensive depending what my experiences may be, which they have no idea?

How do you manage your LinkedIn with a few full time jobs and each company asking you update your LI profile to reflect the job?

What's the average salary package at VMware for P2 level job profile and 6 yoe ? Thank you.

Hey fishes, i need advice as to how to invest 200k? Should i go for individual stocks or funds or should i go to financial advisor? If individual stocks then looking for sectors. Can i invest as a VC? Any thoughts or direction please

Anyone know of a good cross-border US/UK financial fiduciary?

Can I do 1031 exchange with the profits from the sale of a second home into the purchase of a primary?

Hi everyone,

I had offer of a well known company but they said position is on hold so they will be thinking on that and I have resigned from my company

I'm currently working In a good company as a Big Data Engineer having overall work experience of 2 years.


Skill Set: Python, Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Hive, Sqoop

Please refer me in any suitable position.

#referral #help #dataengineer #job

Planning a babymoon with my wife. Shooting for April-May and looking at Hawaii (Maui or Big Island). Hoping with the vaccine and travel precautions, it'll be okay, but we're also prepared to cancel.

Any recommendations for hotels there that you've liked? I figure the Ritz or Four Seasons, but would love some opinions from those who have been.

Recruiting call: "We've had a number of applicants turn down offers because they're afraid of flying." LOLOL. That's like applying for lifeguard and being surprised when there's a pool. 😂

Do you feel like your MBA prepared you for the consulting interviews? Like after the MBA, did you understand how to size up a market and so on?

Thought I'd have time at LGA to get some work done. Been in Uber for about 90 minutes since leaving office. Want to kill myself. What's the deal?!?!

Woke up to bug bite at a Sheraton on my Birthday.. #GreatStart🙄😪

Every hour I'm asked to stay past 5 is another hour I'm working less tomorrow. GFY shitty manager.

What does corporate/business development pay look like in big pharma?

What resources (online prep, books, case books, peers, mental math, etc) did you use when getting ready for case interviews? I’ve seen several online — Management Consulted, Hacking the Case Interview, MConsultingPrep, etc — and would appreciate any insights on what was helpful!

Any book recommendations for someone who worries way too much about work? Have already read The Subtle Art...looking for other good ones? Specific to consulting would be awesome!

Can anyone recommend me insightful books which can help consulting/career but not with titles like “how to be a successful manager” etc.

When people ask: what is the "so what" from this chart? I say to myself - nothing it's just a chart !

My manager basically gave me an unlimited budget to get whatever certifications I want. My career profile is similar to a Solution Architect- what should I get? I am thinking about Okta (I do some SAML work), Domo, ITIL, Six Sigma, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Six Sigma, anything else? I have AWS Cloud Practitioner already. I am hoping to pivot to Product Management or Data Science.

Anyone has any good corporate codes for Hilton? Downtown Chicago if you need an area specific?

Honest question: how many hours do you work a week, what type of consulting do you do, and what is your position? Thinking of switching from big 4 consulting to MBB but seeking this feedback.

Let's go Steelers

Been working as a consultant for a few months and my motivation is struggling.

For those who persevered to a director level or higher, what was/is your guiding force? Your ‘why’?

What essential courses or books do you recommend for coming up to speed on Product Management?

Entering my 15th week unstaffed for the year. Does Deloitte do layoffs for low utilization? Mine is around 60%

Project just wrapped (early) and now I’m on the bench between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Just exactly how screwed am I trying to find a new gig before Xmas? Same approach as normal? Any tips?