Started out fine with enough promise but quickly realized management is incompetent. - Anonymous employee CBIZ Employee Review

1.0
Feb 9, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent national resources. Variety in customer base.

Cons

Unacceptable branding - no one knows who CBIZ is (despite supposed #8 ranking), so no one knows what you've done when interviewing for your next job when you want out. Benefits are sub-par to bad - especially when CBIZ is a 'benefits specialist.' Pathetic. Growth potential - non-existent. Their offices are hemorrhaging clients and staff. Losing clients to much smaller accounting firms and NOT picking up any big 4 or gt work. They can't even hold onto small nonprofits. Practice Leader, Sr Mgrs, Mgrs, Seniors, and Staff all leaving in droves. The structure doesn't make sense for an attest firm - wonder why they are practically the only company with an alternative practice structure? Only growth is happening from them buying firms across the nation - then when those firms don't work out, they just fire everybody. I can't even count how many different accounting firms in FL that have been bought and dissolved.

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Friendly environment and growth-oriented - office dependent. You will learn a lot and be exposed to all industries, which is great. If you are new, they will treat you with respect and try to help you learn; they understand it's a lot.

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Like most companies, they want you to meet your billable hours, which is good. However, the negative here is if the company typically performs worse in the summer or the work starts to slow down for any reason, or you have too many staff competing for work, your billables begin to be negatively affected, which is faulted towards the employees ' performance. You need 150 billable hours a month, regardless of vacation and PTO. Nonbillable hours will not save you from the end goal, which is again, billable hours. Meaning, if you have a meeting, a federal holiday, or an office closure which is non-billable, you will have to make that time up. It's the hard law in this firm.

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