I do not care how desperate you are. You should really keep looking. - Senior Associate RSM Employee Review

1.0
Jul 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Because I want to give a decently fair shake, I will have to say that when you come from another firm they give you an okay pay raise. There are a few people that it is a pleasure to work with. They have a soda machine - no more cups though. So unless you bring a cup, you are not going to get anything to drink. There is constantly something going on so there is always food. Their new years eve party is amazing as you have the best view in the city.

Cons

I am not even sure where to begin. I want to choose my words carefully as I do not want to actually create any lawful action. The extreme lack of communication leads to outright confusion. The firm, as well as individual groups are so top heavy that it doesnt even make sense. I have personally been subject to anti-semitic remarks. People are down right rude and socially awkward. There is absolutely no training or guidance. Even though there are so many high level people, it seems as if they were promoted based on "time served" and not knowledge, because there are very few if any experts. There are questionable ethics in place, in a business sense and in a moral sense (this I will not go into detail other then to say no one should ever have to put their name or their license at risk). Almost like high school, the top-heaviness of the groups and abundance of managers lead to a complete disconnect and are in constant competition with eachother. It almost seems as if people try to put others down to make their client or project look better. There is absolutely no comradery. I would not have stayed in this firm even if they quadrupled my salary. There is so much I want to say and so many people I want to individually tarnish - and one day some people will get their due - but not on a review on glassdoor. I highly recommend that people avoid this firm.

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Pros

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Cons

Comp has been less in recent years due to economic environment which is already not competitive with industry No opportunities to negotiate pay during performance evaluation. You are just a number Continual efforts to normalize excellence. Going above and beyond is now a contingency for being promoted. This makes it increasingly difficult to differentiate oneself Spent 1 billion on AI investments. Hard to really see where it went apart from Copilot and the smaller pay bump.

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