Terrible Compensation System - Anonymous employee Ryan Employee Review

1.0
8 June 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You can work from home sometimes depending on what team you are on.

Cons

They try to sell you the fact that this is an entrepreneurial environment and the sky is the limit when it comes to bonuses. The reality is that below the senior management you have no control over what projects your team gets and what you are put on. The staff gets to split a whopping 3% of the fee you get after the client pays you. It can takes years for that to actually happen. The base salary is much lower than you can get at other firms and they will continually promise you that the bonuses will make up for it when in reality it will probably only happen for a select few who happened to get put on some big projects but the vast majority will likely never see the type of bonuses that would even get you to the standard base salary at other firms. This is not a good system for the tax industry and although "innovative" there is a reason why other firms don't do this. Don't believe the promises of "Sky is the limit!" and you get rewarded on merit because the reality is it is luck of the draw what projects you get and there are many teams not pulling in any big fees.

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