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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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If you personally value work more than other life aspirations then you'll probably like it - Audit Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

4.0
Nov 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

People are generally friendly. I have only worked at one public accounting firm but I get the sense it's more laid back than other public accounting firms (notoriously terrible work-life balance and such). Managers are very smart and could virtually always answer my questions.

Cons

Timesheets. You will have to categorize every 15 minutes of your work and allocate your time to what you worked on. Budgets. While categorizing your time, you have a budget of time for how long each section of the audit should take. It is stressful when you go over that budget but you are also motivated to log as many hours as possible because you also have a personal amount of minimum hours you are supposed to work for the month/year. Underpaid. Within a year of working here you will get offers for more money. PTO is "unlimited", which just means you have to work more hours beyond your personal yearly budget in order to be able to take days off without missing your monthly budget quota.

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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
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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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