YC mentioning agencies in their RFS wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card… but here we are.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

I use timers to keep track of my billable hours, but many senior associates and partners have told me that they just estimate their time. What’s the best method? How do you even accurately estimate?

Which machine learning conferences are FAANG companies recruiting at ?

Learned on the day of the deadline to enroll, that my partner's employer offers voluntary participation on a deferred compensation plan. First time I hear of such a benefit/option after working for years! Any general (i.e. not plan-specific) lessons-learned, gotchas, pointers to offer as we will have to quickly decide to enroll or not?

TIA!

Differences in FDD at accounting firms (big 4, rsm, GT, etc) vs non-accounting firms (HL, A&M, FTI)?

How to resign from pwc…. Where is the option? I cant find it on workday

I got a offer letter from Wipro and my stream is WSM general stream. This is a BPO right?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Job A - no career path upwards, high functioning team, generous benefits and unlimited time off. TC 185

Job B - clear career path, new team, chaotic corporation, but lots of room for growth and budget to hire staff. Ok benefits. TC 220

Thinking about going independent and operating out of my home office. Does anyone have any thoughts to share about that? I’m wondering about clients coming to my home and FINRA issues.

Anybody know of any art director positions open?

For those of you working in your physical office in nyc in IBD or S&T right now, do you have to wear a mask all the time? Or like only in elevators

The learning and design content I write belongs to the company where I work. Am I able to add and/or share my work in my portfolio? Is it acceptable to create some generic content to demonstrate my skill set?

When the first year chose to revamp the whole workpaper with some fancy excel formula but ended up getting the entire thing wrong... 😔

Any Vancouver, BC consultants around here?

Anyone know what kind of experience or certifications I should be aiming to get if I'm trying to break into a pentest role? I just graduated last year and have about a year of sysadmin experience and am trying to get into it asap. So, I'm already applying/job hunting and probably won't get much replies but. Should I be looking at more security analyst/admin roles first? Going for certs? Getting a masters? Wondering what I can do to improve my chances. TIA

Favorite free item in your office ?

Why does DMA keep on bringing up race?

Anyone here took General Assembly’s part-time UX class? I am ad background, has less than a year ux experience ( mostly website wires + visual). GA vs. grad school in HCI, what do you recommend?

How much does it cost the agency for a cannes entry?

What was your most amazing day in advertising?

Barton F. Graf what’s a girl gotta do?
My portfolio is coming for you!! 👍

Just got promoted to ACD. Will be taking on more leadership roles. Any books, workshops, resources that helped you learn leadership skills?

What do you do if you hate your partner?

Working with another agency on a project and think I'd rather work there. Protocol for reaching out to someone to pick their brain? Email? LinkedIn message?

Didn’t know who the CCO is when I was asked about it in an interview... is there anything I can do to redeem myself? I feel like I really dropped the ball on this lol

As a creative, when do you quit without another job lined up? What's the line you draw?

Can someone explain how billable hours work? At a new agency and although I had to fill timesheets at my previous agencies, they were mainly used to ensure we weren’t over servicing a client/for setting the appropriate retainer for contract renewals. I asked ppl at my agency but haven’t gotten a proper explanation. I get the impression that billing to the agency admin code isn’t recommended, and my manager said he bills everything to client codes, but that doesn’t make sense to me .

Given the outbreak, are places actually going to be hiring right now? Recently laid off from 9-5 and my freelance is starting to fizzle.

Got any jokes?

If you got fired today would you have a Bach up plan? What would it be?

Your agency's favorite film director? Who are the guys that get used for everything?

When some asshole won't quit singing in your meeting. I don't need to hear your "rnb sounds" 😘

Looking for senior designers that knows shopper marketing. Please DM with books!

The bond yield curve just inverted. If you don’t have to make any major purchases for the next year, that’s probably a good thing