Pros
Driven Insights has an approach of quality over quantity when it comes to selecting their client. If someone has a background in an accounting firm where the strategy was a high volume of low cost work, it is quite a change and a breath of fresh air. This means you can focus on deadlines, deliver a high quality product, and build a professional relationship with your clients that you can take pride in. I feel like they are going out of their way to correct what the rest of the industry has been doing to accountants.
Team mates are wonderful to work with and supervisors check in often to make sure you are feeling okay and see if you may need a hand. There's no sense of shame if you feel like reaching out for some help and they are constantly monitoring scope and capacity to try to keep team mates from burning out. There's a deep sense of care that comes from team mates and management and it's a very different kind of working relationship.
The people here are very nice and have a good sense of humor. I haven't felt an interaction where I felt talked down to, talked over, or experienced anything toxic. The company will also give time for socialization through happy hours and a virtual water cooler, and there's a good sense of camaraderie among the people there.
The work/life balance is very fair, where most accountants coming in can expect to work 40 hours a week with perhaps occasionally 1 or 2 weeks out of the year being busy to make deadlines. The flex time has been a nice perk for letting DI employees be able to take care of appointments and errands without burning through their PTO and one of the primary draws.
Cons
While it's not bothered me too much, I feel that the benefits package outside of remote work and flex time might be fairly standard relative to other places in the industry. The salary has been similar to my last job as well as the PTO, cafeteria plan and insurances. It gave me the impression that the big draw is the offering to work remote and flex time.
The interview process was quite involved and may be prohibitively difficult for those who are already employed. It felt like I had about 3-5 interviews and most of them were during what would be daytime working hours.
It hasn't bothered me either, but if some people do not like being in a lot of meetings, there can be more of those than what one might expect for a remote position. Extreme introverts may not like the amount of meetings involved.
The flex time does have some limitation in how it is used, basically allowing someone to work a few extra hours on one day to supply time missed on another, but in general one can still be expected to work Monday through Friday during standard working hours. The flex time wouldn't allow for a four-tens work week or working a night shift, for example.
There's a slight disappointment in how PTO must be used for power outages, inclement weather, time to replace the computer and so on.
In regards to CPAs - no coverage of yearly licensure or continuing education costs, where public accounting firms are more likely to cover that. However, they do allow you time during your working hours to do CPE.
