Agree. But trust me such ppl who always hog for credit or limelight are the ones who make a team toxic. I do understand that his statement was more in terms of helping others but ensuring credit due is given.

Chartered Accountant

Don’t over do it. Draw a line. The more you give, the more they are willing and happy to take.  
 Always try and keep your personal life and health first, otherwise years will go by infront of you screens.  
 Made the mistake of saying yes to everyone in the beginning, just so people will know me and appreciate my work. But it has costed me my peace and health.  
 If you’re good, they’ll know.

Consultant

Speak only when required, love yourself more than your project, always reimburse your project related spends, keep in touch with the upper management and learn anger management

On the topic of helping people, can you help me get a referral for PWC? And how can I credit you for the same?

Software Developer

External Audit

Early in my career during my internship, I was in the elevator with a middle aged man with silver hair. He introduced himself and then started asking me about my experience here and my background. ...

Early in my career during my internship, I was in the elevator with a middle aged man with silver hair. He introduced himself and then started asking me about my experience here and my background. I duly responded to him. He gave me a very simple advice,

"There will be a lot of people seeking your help here. Do help them but always ensure you get credit. What is not seen is forgotten and did not happen."

I came to know that he was an extremely senior partner later during the day when I asked someone about him.
This advice stuck with me throughout my career.

What is the most important advice needed to survive in Big 4s?

Analyst

What is the most important advice needed to survive in Big 4s?- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

a) Always have your churlish attitude ON. The more comfortable you get with people, the more are the chances that you may get overworked or engulfed in office politics. Remain professional. Have congenial relation only with your peers, never your bosses.

b) Always promise 10% less than you can generate (believe me you are gonna need it).

c) Manage your year in phases. Max productivity in 3 months before appraisal cucyle. Rest you can take a bit easy.

d) Never let someone put you down. If its not your faul then make the other party regret pushing you.

Small hacks for enjoying a balanced life in Big 4

If you could give one piece of advice to someone just starting their career, what would it be?

Software Engineer

1. Prepare for meetings one day before.
2. Think like you are the CEO of the project.
3. Choose your battles

What is the best advice you've received from your mentor?

Men who are 25 or older, please give a piece of advice in the comments section to the men who are 18-25.

Life Advice for Big 4

1. You’re not in Big 4 for the money early in your career. Your 20s should be spent laying the foundations of your career in your late 20s to early 40s.

2. Money will never be fantastic compared to industry. People aren’t paying Big 4s for expertise, they’re paying for temporary / agile resource allocation or because something requires external parties (e.g., external audit, independent reviews etc.).

3. You can absolutely succeed outside the Big 4, but YMMV. For every industry success story, there’s always someone who worked at a great company but got stuck playing musical chairs, screwed by a restructure, thrown under terrible leadership or just lacked that sweet serendipity that everyone needs to score that next promotion. The Big 4 by comparison provided structured training and career progression. The price you pay for this is money and work life balance.

4. Recruiters love ex big 4 hires just like why they love CAs. It’s a reliable stamp on someone’s CV to shows that someone’s gone through an appropriate level of professional training and professional experiences. For example when hiring an experienced senior / manager I’d be comfortable that they’d have experience coaching new staff, people managing, advising senior leaders or even navigating complex political environments.

5. Networking and its benefits are never felt immediately. The people who realise this too late are always the ones who get caught with their pants down in the middle of job interviews or complex matters at work. They often have no friends, peers or ex colleagues to turn to for advice or just as a general sounding board. You’ll realise just how many people you know in various companies/roles once you leave the Big 4.

Lessons from my Big 4 manager

Product Manager

What is that one piece of advice you’d give your younger self or someone who’s starting off now after working for a few years. 

Mine would be that despite the hunger to prove yourself always take the time off to enjoy your success both personally and with people close to you. 

Time is something you’ll never get back.

One advice you’d give yourself now after having a few years of work exp

Assistant Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Background: I'm about to start my corporate journey and one of the advices I recieved was 
"Don't take things personally, and treat most feedback as a chance to improve and not resent!" 

What would you advice your younger self, about to step out in the corporate world? 

Drop some wisdom!

What advice would you give to your younger self?

Any career advice for a fresher! Would really appreciate it..

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Old IIT, random branch, 8 years out of college, 45LPA fixed + 10 variable + 20L RSUs in a generalist project lead role with a consulting services firm. Confused. Had been wanting to startup at some point hence didn't go for a M7 MBA.  Not sure about starting up now. ISB, Insead and maybe a long shot at an M7 also on the table. Can stay at this firm and be partner equivalent in 4-5 years but it ain't MBB so max I see myself is at 80L fixed in 5 years and it plateauing.
How'd you go about thinking this through?

To MBA or not

Management Consulting

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I am working as SDE 1 in a good Indian startup. It's getting toxic day by day. Late night workings like 3AM and working on weekends is normalised like anything. Since I am new to IT ( no sort of politics never) and have almost 2.5 Years of experience, I am facing issues in getting credits. Last appraisal cycle in January, I was nominated for promotion but wasn't given to me, reason: you have not worked with architect and he was making decisions. In that case, architect should have been distributed tasks to us. 

one SDE3 is leading one of the projects ( not a big one ) and manager/architect is not much interested and never join any standup or retro, I have contributed immensely to that. Now since it is completely driven by sde 3 , he takes updates from us and show his work infront of seniors and director + announces like his work and seldom we get thank you in threads. Like if you did one function or wrote complete flow, for both thank you. Because of all these reasons, my work is not getting recognised. There is no one in team to help in this. 

Whenever a manager or Architect show cases some features or release, it's pretty evident that his team has done it but when a sde 3 does it, it is not the same. It conveys the message all or 90% work is done by him. 

I would like to take some suggestions from my seniors and fellow mates here. 

Hierarchy - sde 1-2-3-4-EM
I can't leave or switch right now due to some critical persona reasons.

Need help !! Toxicity at workplace

Good Indian startup is an oxymoron statement

Context: Folks do you think being a early member (~20 employees only) in a startup with founders who are celebrated entrepreneurs with immense influence and popularity helps you in your career and growth? The founder is a champion investor btw. Now I'm ONLY concerned about my personal growth as a PM.
Do you think it'll be useful for my future?

Need advice : Working under legendary and influential founders

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I am a fresher what things I should know before joining a startup full time ?

Hey everyone, heading into my first internship this summer, no other work experience  and want to hear from full time employees on the lesser known things that secure the return offer. By this I mean things other than being able to adapt to work, ask questions, not making same mistake over and over - basically the things that aren't talked about but from your perspective really makes huge a difference in your opinion on the intern.

Thanks in advance!

The "Not So Obvious" Things That Get You A Return Offer?

What’s the most important career advice you’ve ever received? It could be anything, an advice from your colleague, a lesson you learnt the hard way, or a piece of wisdom that changed your perspective! 🌟🌟

Share Your Most Valuable Career Advice🚀

1. Work hard in your job. Don't complain and waste time. We know everyone is replaceable, but work so damn hard that if at all you decide to resign and switch sometime, it should come as a shell shocker to them.  
 Build a program/product/team from scratch, own it end to end so much that they'll never find anyone close to you who can work with the same efficiency. 
 You'll obviously take your learnings and apply them later on in your next job, but 
 You'll also earn the respect of all your colleagues which might be needed in your future corporate journey. 
 2. Don't chase money early on in your career unless you actually**need** it. Focus on building relationships, knowledge, learning to code (it helps) and earning respect of your colleagues wherever you go. 
 3. Don't get into smoking due to peer pressure. AVOID IT.

Strategy & Operations

What can be improved? Not people specific, but what you feel is wrong about us consistently across most conversations you've had?

Founders/Ex Founders on Grapevine, what can VCs get better at?

Investment Associate

Going to start my first job in a couple of months. Fresh out of college. It's an intern for 6 months +FTE. Analyst position at a new startup. 

Any advice/ heads-up i should be ready for

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