IUSD does away with traditional math path

[bones]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

 

[Happiness]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

Yes, it is a right of passage in certain industries.  Companies use the big 4 experience as sort of a "post graduate school."

No one wants to hire a big 4, banks or investors usually demand a company hire its favorite* big 4 firm as a condition for funding.  Big 4 are the most convenient well insured deep pocket if the SHTF (think Orange County Bankruptcy or Enron). 

*Favorite big 4: not the most qualified but the one who will invite you to their boondoggle in Aspen if you refer them business.

 

[qwerty]

Yes, you can get into a big 4 from a lesser school but you can be lower in your class if you come from a better school  So the great thing about going to a better school is you can slack off and still get hired by a prestigious firm.

well, there is also a good chance if you are that slacker at USC/UCLA or other local schools that you end up at Grant Thornton or BDO  

no offense to any GT or BDO alumni on this board

 

[qwerty]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

its somewhat relative, for FY14, Deloitte, the largest by headcount and revenue had 210,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

at 12/31/14 Goldman Sachs had 34,000 employees, that is over 6 times more employees. but the big 4 are not as selective as the banks and PE firms.

 

[Bullsback]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

its somewhat relative, for FY14, Deloitte, the largest by headcount and revenue had 210,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

at 12/31/14 Goldman Sachs had 34,000 employees, that is over 6 times more employees. but the big 4 are not as selective as the banks and PE firms.

DT alum? 

 

[bones]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

its somewhat relative, for FY14, Deloitte, the largest by headcount and revenue had 210,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

at 12/31/14 Goldman Sachs had 34,000 employees, that is over 6 times more employees. but the big 4 are not as selective as the banks and PE firms.

This is what I was getting at. They need so many warm bodiEs.  It's hard to be selective.

 

[qwerty]

Bullsback - I was at ey

 

[qwerty]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

its somewhat relative, for FY14, Deloitte, the largest by headcount and revenue had 210,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

at 12/31/14 Goldman Sachs had 34,000 employees, that is over 6 times more employees. but the big 4 are not as selective as the banks and PE firms.

This is what I was getting at. They need so many warm bodiEs.  It's hard to be selective.

Well they are still somewhat selective. I was talking to someone on the ey recruiting team, they were saying they won't look at anyone from SC that has lower than 3.5

 

[Happiness]

Well they are still somewhat selective. I was talking to someone on the ey recruiting team, they were saying they won't look at anyone from SC that has lower than 3.5

Inches?  I guess they don't have many Asian dudes working there.

 

[eyephone]

Well they are still somewhat selective. I was talking to someone on the ey recruiting team, they were saying they won't look at anyone from SC that has lower than 3.5

Inches?  I guess they don't have many Asian dudes working there.

What's up with that?  Do you have an issue or something? Seems like your getting crazy with the Big 4 talk.

 

[Bullsback]

My impression is that it's not hard to get into a big 4. Everyone and their mother, it seems, either worked at or works for one at some point in their career.

its somewhat relative, for FY14, Deloitte, the largest by headcount and revenue had 210,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

at 12/31/14 Goldman Sachs had 34,000 employees, that is over 6 times more employees. but the big 4 are not as selective as the banks and PE firms.

This is what I was getting at. They need so many warm bodiEs.  It's hard to be selective.

Well they are still somewhat selective. I was talking to someone on the ey recruiting team, they were saying they won't look at anyone from SC that has lower than 3.5

Deloitte had a very similar approach. Outside of rare exceptions, you needed at least a 3.5.