What's the best public accounting firm to be making a partner? Is it big 4, mid size or small?

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One that pays a big fat pension as part of the partnership.

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I dunno, I’m not a partner.

Midsize seems like the best of both worlds.

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Depends which region you’re in. You can usually kindve tell if there’s a partner track for you or not. if you only have a bunch of senior managers and directors in your office or practice space, probably no partner track for a while. The area I’m in, there’s no doubt that mid tier is the only partner track. Smaller city, smaller market. I’ve interviewed at a few B4 and they’re all 15 year+ senior managers or directors. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t seem very enticing when I see 10-12 year people at midtier making partner.

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