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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Not worth it - Senior Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

2.0
Oct 20, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There is always plenty of work in different areas to give you plenty of good experience. CPE is pretty good.

Cons

Toxic clique culture. There are a lot of people who are bad at their jobs but because they drink the koolaide they are put in leadership positions where they force high performers to make up for what they lack. They offer “market pay” for high performers and bad pay for everyone else. They have mastered how to save money by pushing poor performers out and shifting their work to others. Don’t expect more pay for being told to work 70 hours a week 6 months a year. CLA only pays “market pay” and nothing more.

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Pros

Culture and mentoring programs with teams

Cons

Compensation appears to be stunted even for promotion

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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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