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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Poor Culture and Management - Assurance Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

2.0
Sep 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

CLA has a strong federal government practice that competes with the Big 4. Great location for Arlington, VA office. Pay was comparable to Big 4

Cons

Motivated staff with 1-3 years of experience leave to work for the federal audit/consulting groups at Accenture, PwC, KPMG, etc. There are a group of managers that have been with the firm for 10+ year and have little ambition or skills; and despite getting poor performance reviews year-after-year, they still remain at the company

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Pros

Culture and mentoring programs with teams

Cons

Compensation appears to be stunted even for promotion

1.0
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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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