Big 4 hiring

Is anyone familiar with the hiring down in the south for the Big 4? Alabama and Georgia, specifically. Alabama preferred, though it seems the Alabama offices are all incredibly small. I'm curious as to how many audit and TS/TAS new hires they pull per year. From what I've read, the Alabama offices have 50 people in them. I don't really know if that would make it more competitive, or more open to new hires because no one wants to work there?

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It depends. For instance, I have heard the Birmingham offices are competitive because its a nice city and there are a certain group of people that want to be there. It helps if you are from there or can show some type of anchor to the city (wife is from there) so they don't have to worry about you moving there and hating it, then requesting to change locations.

 
MistaBooksIt depends. For instance, I have heard the Birmingham offices are competitive because its a nice city and there are a certain group of people that want to be there. It helps if you are from there or can show some type of anchor to the city (wife is from there) so they don't have to worry about you moving there and hating it, then requesting to change locations.

I was hoping it was the opposite in terms of competitiveness/people wanting to work there. Thanks for the input!

 

Do you mean for entry level? I don't know about TAS, but for Big4 audit/tax, I'm pretty sure they mostly recruit from southern campuses, usually nearby or in-state, with decent accounting programs. At my school Big 4 audit and tax recruited accounting majors for FT internships which would last the first half of Spring semester Sr year. So accounting majors didn't even have classes the first half of the semester during the internship, then took condensed classes the second half of spring semester post-internship. I'm pretty sure the firms hired almost entirely from their intern pools. Was not hard to get with a decent gpa.

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