Hostile Work Environment - Assurance Senior Associate RSM Employee Review

1.0
Aug 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The only positive thing about any public firm is the overall experience you get by working on multiple clients and in different industries.

Cons

Honestly the management at RSM is below horrific. Managers all the way up to Partners make this a poor place to work and you might as well go back to high school. Managers/Partners will pick their favorites solely based on superficial characteristics. You work your butt off and get a 2 grand bonus for the year that is later taxed down that it can hardly cover 1 months worth of rent. Nobody actually cares about your career path even though they will try and say you will just to get you to stay, so you can make $30K less than the market value and work 500 more hours during the year. Public accounting is what it is, but this placed showed me how to NOT be professional and NOT act with integrity.

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Cons

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Pros

They try to stay loyal to their people Unlikely to be laid off if performance is good Supportive of internal mobility to a point. Varies on manager Great company for people coming out of college for gaining experience as long as they don't plan to make a career at RSM and Directors/Partners

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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