Pros
1. Most coworkers are very friendly. 2. There are a couple of company parties each year. 3. The firm promotes physical health and offers group fitness classes during busy season.
Cons
1. High Turnover Rate: I saw multiple people get terminated for no apparent reason or a minor infraction without warning. There isn't a performance improvement plan or write up, you can and will be terminated without warning for any reason that management desires. 2. Lack of Professional Development: Management takes a sink or swim approach to training. The only training you will receive is a training manual with a case study your first day and that's it. Management doesn't take any real interest in trying to help you succeed in your career. 3. Lack of Transparency From Management: Employees are kept in the dark about new initiatives and the direction of the firm. 4. Lack of Clear Goals: Management doesn't provide clear or quantifiable goals. You will never know how well you are performing. 5. Lack of Constructive Feedback: Management will tell you that you are doing great until the day they terminate you. 6. Lack of Responsibility From Leadership. For anything that goes wrong on an engagement the blame will be passed down the totem pole. 7. Lack of Prestige in the Community: The firm is considered at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to competitor firms. We never came close to winning bids for new clients. 8. Benefits Aren't Up To Par With Competitor Firms: The 401k in particular has high fees. 9. Lack of Proper Leadership Engagement: You will either be micromanaged or you will never hear from or see upper management. There isn't much of a balance among the partners and managers. 10. Hazing: Traditions such as the new person being required to bring the copying and printing equipment are common here and they are a form of hazing even as harmless as they may seem. And the hazing may not stop there. 11. Lack of Privacy: Everyone in the firm will want to know your personal business and they have no problem constantly drilling you with private inappropriate questions. 12. Siloed Departments: There isn't much interaction or engagement between audit and tax or the other departments that audit and tax don't know about. 13. Lack of Caring From Management: The COVID 19 response from management was not ideal. We were one of the last firms to have employees be allowed to work from home. Employees were still required to go to client sites and put themselves at risk even while the clients were allowing their employees to work from home all the way up to the end of March. Once the quarantine began, while working from home, there were no firm wide meetings at all for updates or guidance and no department meetings for months even though we had Microsoft Teams. There was radio silence from upper management. There was also no transparency about the fact that the firm took a PPP loan. 14. Lack of Respect For HR And Other Employees: Many employees would demean the only employee in HR and other employees that they didn't feel had important roles at the firm and upper management would also participate in the demeaning. I also witnessed during multiple occassions coworkers conspiring to get other employees terminated. 15. Lack of Honesty: I was told or lead to believe things that would have been beneficial for me during the interview and the annual review process that management back tracked on at later dates. 16. Undesireable Clientel: You will be required to work with not just unfriendly clients but also clients that say offensive or inappropriate things and management will not do anything about it because the revenue is too important. 17. Lack of Proper Technology: Compared to competitor firms this firm hasn't and won't keep up with advancements in accounting technology. 18. No CPA Review Reimbursement: You will not get reimbursed for your CPA review materials and the bonus once you pass is not competitive with other firms and it comes with multiple caveats.