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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Avoid if coming over from higher level industry acctg positions - BizOps CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

1.0
Jan 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility to work remotely and take PTO. Just know that even if you take PTO you are not excused from your charge hour budget for the month and are expected to figure out a way to make up those hours which leads to overtime in the last week/weekend of every month.

Cons

Crappy work, clients, outsourcing function is disorganized and developing. There are contradicting performance measures in terms of realization and utilization. The audit/tax model does not work for this arm of the business and you can do the same type of work for a non CPA firm or on your own if you are competent enough with less of the administrative/compliance ridiculousness that CLA imposes.

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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
CEO approval
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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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