was an intern and ot until 2am before. The engagement only had me and 1 senior. They were so short staffed they sent me alone to client's office alone on my third day of official work after training.

Every year lesser and lesser people on the engagement but manager like cannot see. Still ask us to manage time better.

And wan to add. This is yellow.

U cant blame them. This industry is about how long you stay and not much about performance. You can be sub par and get to higher position. Every year everyone expect increment. Without new source of income the best thing they can do is allocate lesser manpower to each assignment. U do budgeting dont u. The assignment have to be profitable.

Client all want lower fee and sg is not like other country. We can nv compare our market.

Anw once u are experience enough u can clearly feel/see this cmi cycle in audit industry.

Yellow ah? I remember intern had to do workpapers normally assigned to A1 and A2 because engagement was understaffed

Yep currently facing that. Current engagement has less people, and these people are not recurring. And less experience some more. But manager expect team to deliver faster than last year. He wait lor.

Idk why ppl still in big 4. Outside doing sth else abt 3-4 YOE shake leg go home on time also can hit 7k with more benefits and bonus

有点笨sia

Once hit M1 also can shake leg right? Let senior do all.

What is M1 salary after the recent pay adjustment?

yes yellow. Wow i didn't know workpapers not meant to be assigned to intern. Always thought this was the norm. Knn somemore the senior was some malaysian with pathetic english. Could barely understand what she was trying to tell me. Best part was the client also din't understand her, and I had to explain stuff to the client when I barely knew anything.