Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Originally Posted by Unregistered

When I quit one of my mgr keep telling me the standard bad things abt commercial: slow progression, equally stressed, no salary increment and the list goes one

But she basically stays in big 4 ever since she came out of uni… so whatever she echoing is just because she heard it from someone else and maynot be true all the time

Besides she personally drinks the big 4 koolaid why u expect her to tell us to quit ?

(Also the same mgr take maternity for **** long period of time, one thing I agree is if she’s in commercial she probably won’t get promoted if she is away for so long. Only those that benefits from the b4 experience would say it’s a good place

What nonsense. If commercial that bad can always jump back to audit. LOL. She is living in denial.

Look at this year nus ges accountancy vs rest

Difference is huge

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Look at this year nus ges accountancy vs rest

Difference is huge

but but but...steady progression....chance to make partner...Mgr pay good...outside progression slow....and other B4 kool aid talking points

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Busy season making my anxiety worst. Manager and senior pings me in the middle of the night, burn my weekends, scared cannot meet deadlines….

Any tips on how to cope with this stress?

I have the same issue as you.

My associate years quite good life because my senior handle everything, but now I’m the senior and I can’t cope.

The anxiety is overwhelming for me.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Junior whr got stress. Cannot finish then say cannot finish lo. Ultimate responsibility is on them.

Now I am the senior and although still have manager, he has made it clear the ultimate responsibility is on me and I will be held accountable for the associates too.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have the same issue as you.

My associate years quite good life because my senior handle everything, but now I’m the senior and I can’t cope.

The anxiety is overwhelming for me.

I’m not even a senior. I’m just an A2 but treated as a “senior” cus majority of the seniors left alr. With barely more than a year of experience in audit, I have to be responsible for all the sections assigned to me, guide my juniors and clean up the mess my juniors made. Man, I’m clueless every single day and just trying to fake it till I make it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

When I quit one of my mgr keep telling me the standard bad things abt commercial: slow progression, equally stressed, no salary increment and the list goes one

But she basically stays in big 4 ever since she came out of uni… so whatever she echoing is just because she heard it from someone else and maynot be true all the time

Besides she personally drinks the big 4 koolaid why u expect her to tell us to quit ?

(Also the same mgr take maternity for **** long period of time, one thing I agree is if she’s in commercial she probably won’t get promoted if she is away for so long. Only those that benefits from the b4 experience would say it’s a good place

What she said on slow progression and low increment is true. Everyone knows it. But it doesn’t justify why we should be squeezed hard by big4 instead. We can just keep job hopping for the increments.

You let her be ba. She just came back from maternity, that would means there is a baby at home asking for her attention 24/7. She won’t last long too.

The jump from A2 to S1 is just ridiculously steep.

One moment you only have to follow instructions and got people guide you step by step,

Next moment you expected to know everything and be the one giving instructions to your associates when you yourself might not even be 100% sure.

Ranking for non big4 audit and tax

Originally Posted by Unregistered

With barely more than a year of experience in audit, I have to be responsible for all the sections assigned to me, guide my juniors and clean up the mess my juniors made. Man, I’m clueless every single day and just trying to fake it till I make it.

Almost 5 years of experience, still feeling the same way.

It's like imposter syndrome? People say I'm good at doing what I'm doing but deep inside I'm actually clueless.

A large part of this is because 50% of what I'm doing is either self-taught or things I figured out by myself along the way without knowing for sure if this is the way it is meant to be.