Featured Job Survey: The Grass Is Always Greener … In-House?
Earlier this week, we told you about client contact, and asked you about your firm’s leave policies (that survey’s still live, by the way). In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we explore whether you’d like to leave your firm to become a client:
Update: This survey is now closed. Click here for the results.
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Justin Bernold is a Director at Lateral Link, the sponsor of this survey.
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BTW, Lat, the graph for the response as to why go in house does not show the text associated with a given response, only the number
Oh, and you suck at graphing, Lat.
The values on an axis should not be ordered based on which received the most responses. The value on n axis should stay static, going from least to greatest (also generally best if you use the x-axis for your values), and the responses should often look like a bell curve.
I agree with 12:00. Are we sure Lat went to Yale and worked at Wachtell, because a third grader could do better with these charts?
You idiots should learn to read...these Lateral Link posts are produced Justin Bernold, not David Lat. So, you should be disparaging Harvard, UVA, and Bromberg & Sunstein; not Yale and Wachtell.
Anyway, the graphs are definitely improperly organized.
The graphs are automatically generated by the software.
I used to work in-house. At what would seem to be a "sexy" company. It was (a) very dull, (b) paid relatively poorly (had options but 97% of companies don't 'blow up') and (c) coworkers were for the most part dull. It was less stressful and the hours were regular.
I've now gone to a small firm (was previously at a vault20 firm) and am content.
I don't know about graphs, but it looks to me like this survey only asks what my current employment status is.
It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
Junior Associates - if you are expecting $200,000 or more in-house and the position does not involve the words "hedge fund," you are smoking something.
Hmm, the survey software _does_ automatically generate these charts, but their tech team is pretty responsive, so I'll see what they can do.
In the meantime, I flipped the top chart to a pie chart, which is a bit less confusing, but I think that'd be a bit of a mess for the bottom chart. I'll do a chart of the final results by hand next week, but the real-time tidbits are going to look how they look for a bit.
But, yeah, if anybody wants to disparage Harvard, I guess I can live with that. Does the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement still exist?
the chart of salary expectations is telling. The ones responding 200K or more clearly have never actually looked for an in-house position. The one's responding with the 17% probably have had their expectations tempered by what's actually out there. Above a 160 base is hard to find.
p.s. Bromberg & Sunstein is the biggest shit show.