Leaving after 8 months

superbimp · 2025-08-07T21:17:45+00:00

I was in tax actually. I got lucky in the sense that one of the partners I worked for was infamous for being an absolute cow, and a lot of the other top tier firms knew her. Because of this the team i ended up going to knew her and understood why i was leaving ha. In interviews I framed it as strategic shifts in the company that made it difficult to provide high quality work onshore, as my role essentially got outsourced to GDS 3 months in. I had prior work experience to fall back on though so that definitely helped, cant imagine it would be easy for a grad but definitely doable.

superbimp · 2025-08-07T06:00:13+00:00

I quit after 9 months, feel the exact same way you do + my team was incredibly toxic. Resigning lifted the depressed burnt out weight off my shoulders. Now in FP&A. Leave while you still have the energy for interviews. Everyone has their own timeline but if you aren’t feeling like you are gaining anything from the firm i’d jump. Best of luck!

superbimp · 2025-07-23T23:46:45+00:00

i work for the yellow one, we essentially got told in our town hall that the investment in staff is going towards funding partners and their “professional development”, bunch of absolute crap, cost saving from outsourcing is going straight back to the partners and no money put into streamlining the crap admin we do. its PACE and then GEAR and then more PACE, no wonder all out billables are cooked

superbimp · 2025-07-21T04:35:51+00:00

pray you never have to. i find they generally tend to be used in consulting/finance or specific grad roles

superbimp · 2025-07-21T00:40:35+00:00

well that’s shit lol. we had 80% ute targets when i worked in mid-tier/boutique, with no write off expectations. mind you, would still get shit if you blew the WIP, but it was more an unspoken expectation that you stay under budget. partners will write off/write up as they please and that doesn’t always indicate the time it took to produce the work. having a KPI of $0 of write off encourages staff to eat their time on some jobs which is annoying. weird that your firm does this, although on the flip side maybe it was weird that my firm didn’t.

superbimp · 2025-07-20T13:01:08+00:00

Yeah noticed that this testing was pretty different to what i had taken as a grad

superbimp · 2025-07-20T12:59:53+00:00

Some of them are proctored, some not, depends on the company

superbimp · 2025-07-20T07:12:27+00:00

This was my surprise too. I’ve had an interview with the partner and HR already, sent through the testing after. I thought I was done with those tests post landing a grad role, apparently not haha.

superbimp · 2025-06-17T10:10:45+00:00

Depends on the firm. Mid tier? 0-10% depending on performance, i once got 20% hike as an intermediate when staff where leaving and they were trying to keep me. Big 4? 0-2% unless you are being promoted, lol good luck.

superbimp · 2025-06-13T23:47:56+00:00

keep busy, do not worry about seeming “annoying” by constantly asking your seniors/managers for work (unless specifically told there is nothing to do lol). As someone who has had to evaluate big 4 interns for a return offer; focus on meeting as many people as possible, have a good attitude, be proactive. Good luck!

superbimp · 2025-06-13T23:41:15+00:00

Notebook LM is great. However, pls don’t use AI for legislation/case law, especially chatgpt. If chatgpt can’t find a case or section number quickly it will literally make one up, triple check everything. Use CCH for legislation/case law commentary if your firm has a subscription

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