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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

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Good opportunities, poor pay and benefits - Senior Associate CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Employee Review

4.0
Nov 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Get to see a wide variety of work compared to a big 4 firm, excellent hands-on training the first 4 years of employment, a variety of CPE course options, friendly people, managers are willing to work with you for scheduling conflicts.

Cons

Very poor benefits (health insurance and 401k contributions is only 4% with 6 year vesting). Pay is low compared to industry average especially for all the hours worked. Busy season is not the only time working 50+ hour weeks. Jobs are often under staffed.

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Pros

Culture and mentoring programs with teams

Cons

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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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