A good place to work, but it can be a "cult - like" atmosphere where if you don't quite fit in, you won't last long - Senior Consultant Ryan Employee Review

3.0
7 Nov 2010
Recommend
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Pros

I liked the place because of the specialized nature of the work - state & local tax consulting and audit defense, and little else (no tedious, boring compliance work or federal tax), however this is changing somewhat as I believe they plan on getting into federal tax and doing compliance work as well. Company is good about sending you to state tax conferences, outside courses and uses webinars to learn state and local tax laws. Bonus plan is really good, where you truly get compensated for the hard work you've done and motivates you to work hard on an engagement. System of evaluation and feedback is less cumbersome than the Big 4. Good place to go if you've already gotten good training at a Big 4 firm.

Cons

Line level consultants are good about sharing knowledge and helping each other out within their team, but getting support from other teams is difficult and teams don't seem to want to share anything with each other, almost are pitted against each other. Many times you are just left to your own devices on how to figure something out and your manager doesn't have time to help you with it. Extremely rigid policies about how to perform client work and other internal matters that don't always make sense and take away from productivity.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Culture is great amongst principle and executive team members. The work is not difficult if you have prior experience in property tax. Benefits are good. Great promotion track if you are willing to play the politics.

Cons

Political environment. Senior Consultants do not mind throwing newer people under the bus for their mistakes. Boundaries are not respected. You are expected to know everything with no real formal training, they do provide some training for the first few weeks but then it drops off and everything needs to be self taught. Management has favorites and you will know instantly.

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