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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyone from deloitte risk advisory? How is the pay structure and culture? Is it same as audit?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The big 4 are unwieldy and dysfunctional branded networks and very little else. Fundamental change in these firms is very difficult to achieve - it always seems to resemble "herding cats".

That said, the leadership in these firms never seems up to the job of designing and then enacting any fundamental change with any success since they are not generally 'business people' who have run full-scale businesses out in the real world where oligopolies like theirs don't feature.

Partnership is achieved on narrow technical competence and/or ability to sell (in other words: take business off another of the big 4) and this is the gene pool out of which the leaders emerge. The rewards that accrue from partnership are underpinned by the oligopoly these firms enjoy in their core markets - not by the brilliance of most partners' leadership talents and business acumen, which are generally, ahem, modest: as demonstrated in spades here by the EY "leadership" .

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is yellow going to survive by this end year, what with all the internal disarray from Proj everest?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why is everyone in this forum saying going to IB/Consulting is like a walk in the park. Grad from NTU 2 years ago and from what I see only 1/10 get into banks or consulting. The rest that tried and failed just ended up in big 4 like the rest seems like everyone commenting here is top 10% of the cohort.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why is everyone in this forum saying going to IB/Consulting is like a walk in the park. Grad from NTU 2 years ago and from what I see only 1/10 get into banks or consulting. The rest that tried and failed just ended up in big 4 like the rest seems like everyone commenting here is top 10% of the cohort.