Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M...
by prepend on Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:14PM
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I spent a lot of time in big4 consulting and it’s got a lot of high bill rate specialists in addition to normal partner people.
It’s not true that manager know your salary, nor that they can fire you. Managers there controlled projects and investments but almost no one knew salary unless you were HR. Raises and bonuses were always in percentages and only your local mega partner who didn’t actually manage you knew real numbers.
Profitability was based on averages and bands to discourage minmaxing profitability on projects as that was detrimental to delivery and to clients. Markup and overhead was so high it was pretty difficult to be unprofitable.
So maybe in some orgs there’s strict boss type ladders. But there are many orgs where parallel is real.
It’s not true that manager know your salary, nor that they can fire you. Managers there controlled projects and investments but almost no one knew salary unless you were HR. Raises and bonuses were always in percentages and only your local mega partner who didn’t actually manage you knew real numbers.
Profitability was based on averages and bands to discourage minmaxing profitability on projects as that was detrimental to delivery and to clients. Markup and overhead was so high it was pretty difficult to be unprofitable.
So maybe in some orgs there’s strict boss type ladders. But there are many orgs where parallel is real.