Why many people are interested in London given the food, pay, tax, cost of living, safety and weather?

Hi all

My joining will be on 19th Dec for Bangalore location Prestige Trade Tower. I'm looking for guys who need room partner. I'm ready to spend 10-15k for sharing in a rented apartment/house.

Please let me as soon as possible. Thanks

I can still opt for Pune location if somebody living in Pune.

Hey everyone, I promise not to hound anyone! I’m a Houston recruiter. Focus on associates in TX only. Law firm side - not in house. I have Big Law openings in real estate, M&A ( public and PE) with large signing bonuses, finance (rare opening with NYC firm in Houston), project development and exec comp. Open to relocation candidates. Check me out on LinkedIn as I post a ton. Would love to set up a call.

Intel on Haynes & Boone? Environment/hours/reasonableness of Partners/comp??

Anybody have insight into Winston & Strawn real estate in dallas? Do they pay market? Is it a sweatshop? Any info would help. Thanks!

Question for F🐠. Someone asks you to keep them company via text, social media, maybe a phone call sometime etc. You'll be payed to do this. Would you do it? And what are your terms?

The pandemic has brought misery for a few sales organizations and unforeseen opportunities for a few others. How many folks out here crushed Q2? If so by what % did you exceed your quarterly quota? Did someone have their best quarter till date? Let’s celebrate some accomplishments!

Hey Fishes,
Looking for a change,
Any reference will help to make a first jump successful.

YOE: 2.9
Technology Stack: NodeJs , MySQL/Mongodb, JavaScript jQuery.
Secondary Stack :- Angular, VueJs, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes using ISTIO.

Billables are low this month. Like I have 65 billable hours in so far. I’ve messaged partners over the last week to try and get more cases but there are tons of new associates who were just onboarded and were at a low point for business. I’m freaking out

Anyone working at Abbie willing to provide reference? Desperately need one

Does anyone work in a very volume based area of law (i.e. insurance defense, workers comp) but have partners who are perfectionists to an absurd degree? How do you manage to get your billing in when everything always has to be revised?

How long were you a senior in FDD before things started to click? Really enjoying everything so far but feel like I am behind my peers. Been about 7 months now.

How viable/easy is it to move from patent prosecution? I’m assuming patent lit is an obvious option, but what about tech trans? Other general practice areas? Bird law?

Best fall vacation destinations on a biglaw budget?

If buy the partners you work with regularly a holiday gift, how much do you spend? Usually I get baked goods or food items which you can’t tell the actual amount spent on. This year, though, I’d like to support local restaurants by encouraging people to order takeout—hence, giving gift cards.

How much is appropriate for a restaurant gift card from an associate to a partner?

First gen immigrant getting case of impostor syndrome/nerves with upcoming BCG interview. Any folks want to share advice that might help? Would really appreciate it; thanks :)

What resources are you guys using to prep for the quant portion of the BCG chat bot case? So nothing related to mental math on rocketblocks, but more about the logic of the quant portions

What are M7 MBB recruiting timelines ? Considering applying right now to MBB, but if I get rejected I’m going to do an MBA, will I be blacklisted from applying for summer internships if I get rejected this fall ?

For personal travel. What website/app do you use for flights?

Have 3 Bonvoy free night certificates (35k/night), thinking of using them to go somewhere but legit have no idea where to go.

Any recs for decent but “affordable” Bonvoy hotels in cool places ?

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

What are some brain teaser interview questions you all have encountered?

All I want to do is curl up in bed with hot tea and a good book. Recommendations for if I ever achieve said dream?

Sunday night travel means.....

Would you catch the next flight out to India if it means keeping your job?

What’s everyone’s hourly rate for billing? I’m at $400/hour

Any book recommendations for philosophy, psychology, and business? Or any book you read last year changed your values? Going to fly international, gonna read it on flight. 😍

Best consulting firms (including boutiques) if you want to do product design/development

Since the firm has clearly abandoned the practice of matching its peers (e.g., BCG/Bain) in terms of benefits, would love to hear some of the benefits provided by our new peers (Big4)? ....

Manager with international transfer op. Will it help me in my career at the firm and outside?

Hey 🐳 fam!
Have any of you guys taken a career/personality test to figure out what you want to do in life, professionallly?
I've heard about Clifton, Self authoring suite so far, any other reccos?

I have managed and implemented Oracle projects for the last 10 years. I am a PMP, CSCP and PSM certified. I am looking for a change with a salary of 150,000.

Any recommendations?

What are everyone’s thoughts on Oliver Wyman, the type of work they do and the exit ops? More specifically in their CMT practice.

Would now be a good time to start investing and buying stocks? They are on sale but also this thing coulda go on fire a while.. and cash is king. Also, what brokerage firm do you recommend?

Westin, Conchal, Costa Rica, anybody have an opinion/review to share? Looking at a week with her Hotness in February.

Stupid question: do you get to alt-travel? Not fly home to your home office on the weekends, but use that budget to fly somewhere else?

Best books on leadership and self development?