Why is there so much backstabbing in public/Big4 firms? Any bad experiences you’d like to share and how did you overcome it?

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No but it sounds like you have a story or two. Share that with us lol

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It's not exclusive to public accounting. There are dookie people everywhere.

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Because people are dumb enough to think you’ll take away their promotion. With the rate of people leaving PA, that’s laughable to me.

Or because they don’t want to be the one responsible for the f*ck ups and it’s more convenient to pin it on someone else.

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Because the performance review process enables it, at least when I was at D. It allows reviewers to provide great feedback to your face and in the back end submitted subpar ratings knowing that you will only know until it’s too late and it will be average out with your other ratings.

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