How do you generally perceive CAs?

Met many of them during my MBA, they all come with a baggage of “cracking CA is toughest/smartest deed”. It might be a tough thing but in India everything is tough. Found majority of them bit more theoretical rather practical. Maybe the protected environment of homes (as CA is a non-residential program) make them less pragmatic especially against engineers.

They're pretty smart and hardworking but often come with a sense of superiority (this is a generalised perspective from my experiences). Many non-CAs are proportionately very smart and hardworking too so CAs aren't really special in that regard and the sense of superiority is misplaced.

Our MBA law professor once said: If you can read long boring stuff which no one wants to, and can translate that to other folks to advise them, then you will be the sought after profession.

Be it tax, accounting, law, IT, product docs, researcher or even religious texts. When the other person believes you know more than he does, you have power.

Usually very smart. The ones who crack out of the finance shell and do business or product roles. I’ve seen pretty smart CAs

Grade A fuddus

Indifferent to this. Maybe that guy is smarter than me?

Respect 🫡

Hire one if you can