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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Does not treat employees well - Tax Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

On the forefront of technology.

Cons

Compensation: 10-20% below market. No meal allowance during overtime. No parking or mileage reimbursement for weekend/holiday work. Travel policies: required to stay at an employee's house (rather than hotel) when traveling outside home office, meal stipend was $400 for a month (that's $13/day for ALL meals!). Poor office culture: management is cold and unfriendly, zero office outings/holiday parties, rare happy hours (and employees pay for their own drinks ALWAYS), minimal collaboration. Work life balance: Treated like a commodity (long hours, little praise, no interest in developing young staff.) Exit opportunities: mediocre job opportunities since CLA is not nearly as highly regards as Big4 or other second tier firms (GT, RSM, CBIZ).

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Pros

Culture and mentoring programs with teams

Cons

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Pros

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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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