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[quote=Anonymous]Re: Big 4 is so much more stressful/you see more.

PP here who is now an assistant controller. I am in audit and worked at a large national firm and a small local firm (about 25ppl). I have also been audited by one of the big 4.

My opinion - you get the best experience at a large national or large local firm (office of 100+). I had bigger clients at my second firm but not that much difference in work/life balance. I actually found the partners at the larger firm to be more organized and there were way less ‘fires’. Did they exist? Yes. But, at my smaller firm, we were always behind. ALWAYS. 
I jumped to the larger firm when I was a senior and increased my salary by 40%. My stress levels increased a little, but not by much.

As for the ‘you see so much more with Big 4’. Could be true, could not be true. I had a large team from the big 4 auditing us at my position. I would have hired one of them out of eight. I was blown away with what they 3rd year senior and 2nd year staff did not know. Big 4 is pushing a lot of prep work to India, which means the staff levels do not get exposure to stuff, which they were not seeing the whole process before either. [/quote]

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