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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Once a reasonable firm, now just complete garbage - Senior Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Free snacks and coffee -Free CPE -CPA bonus -Unlimited PTO* -People I work with are amazing

Cons

-*PTO is NOT unlimited... your utilization will be impacted negatively -Pay is way below market -Work below 40 hours? You're definitely getting called out, even if you worked 60 hours in the prior week -Management enforcements non-value activities (such as special review requirements and mandatory standardized workpapers) that will either raise the final cost to the client or hurt your realization rate -Communication with client transitions is consistently poor, to the point where losing a good principal usually results in a couple of orphan clients which makes the remainder of us look bad

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5.0
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Pros

Culture and mentoring programs with teams

Cons

Compensation appears to be stunted even for promotion

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good thing national teams allow remote work opportunity because there's not enough space in the local offices anyway, but you might just end up working after hours more often than not.

Cons

No pay raises year after year which is an actual pay decrees when taking into account inflation, fake "flexible" PTO, required to work 45 hours a week without any overtime, raises, bonus, or any financial reward which actually matters. You have to do ridiculous workday feedbacks, and self review every quarter but it means nothing because they don't even consider the feed back you've received when laying off. It is your job to find work, and when there is't enough work for you it's your fault, not leadership's. You get promised new projects and they are always delayed for months at a time and many times nothing even comes out of it. Pretentious company that likes to call itself "family" - only red flags here.

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