MHA Reviews

It is hard to write just how bad things got at MacIntyre Hudson. Covid-19 was the straw that broke the camels back for me, however even before that I was unhappy in my job, over worked and tremendously underpaid and totally uncared for by management. The Partners in their wisdom decided to furlough a significant portion of staff for a considerable period, why?! We still had the same amount of work to get done, but now by a vastly reduced workforce. Consequently I faced more stress than usual trying to get through a completely unrealistic workload. I pride myself on doing a good job however the workload inevitably meant that the quality of the audits being churned out in a hurry and without sufficient resource deteriorated significantly in my opinion. Not just my own but across the office. The Partners would then question every little thing on your timesheet and you constantly felt on eggshells when preparing your timesheets. You felt like you couldn’t be honest when writing them through fear of the reaction... a horrible situation to be in. The Partners put a bit of a show on about caring for their staff (A token 2 inch flower pot bearing the firms logo and some seeds was a highlight, there was no mention of the cancelled pay rise that was cancelled without notice) but the reality is you are overworked, underpaid, unhappy and with no career progression because they can’t afford to promote the mid level staff to management because they are so dramatically understaffed. In this buoyant job market you can easily find a better paid job with vastly superior work/life balance and progression prospects in my opinion...that is what I have done.

Not a nice place to work. Senior management care more about what is being posted on your timesheet rather than rewarding (or acknowledging) any extra efforts. They furloughed half the firm in April 2020, but gave the remaining staff the reward of no pay rises and dictations over taking our annual leave (even though the government was allowing everyone to carry allowances over to next year). As soon as you hand in your notice you are like a piece of dirt on their shoe and it makes you feel satisfied in that you have made the right decision in leaving. Policies are inconsistent for different people and a lot of their rules are petty. The “agile” policy is in place but it is not very flexible and it is frowned upon by senior members of staff if you actually use it. People in management positions disclose private and confidential information to other members of the team so you know that you cannot trust them yourselves. Half the of office have left since March 2020 but they continue to treat the staff who actually do all the work like dirt and please the people at the top and they wonder why everyone is leaving..? They are a training firm but no study days are given for exams. Large increase in pay when I left to my new firm and qualified salaries are £6K more than MH which makes a massive different in quality of life. HR are not approachable, they wouldn’t always take the side of senior staff so there is no point going to them in the first place. No choice in how much we can WFH in future months, they decide for you.