Old School Accounting Firm - Anonymous employee UHY LLP Employee Review

1.0
Nov 7, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The NYC office has nice views

Cons

If you value growth, training and development, technology, leadership, diversity or flexibility this is not the place for you. A large percentage of the partners are 60+ year old white men, processes are still manual (most partners don’t even know how to use excel) and some like things done on paper, you won’t be able to work remotely (if you do it will be frowned upon). Complete lack of efficiency. The firms sells itself as "midsized" when in reality they are small and very regionally focused. Just by walking into the office you can see the look/feel that of an old school accounting firm (all wooden large furniture/oversized cubes not conducive to modern workspace). There is little no connection of the NY region to any other regional locations other than sharing a name. The culture is toxic, brought on by toxic partners who fight to keep toxic employees despite receiving feedback from staff that these are the exact reasons for their departures. The regional CEO is a complete joke with zero leadership skills, he lets the partners who scream the loudest walk all over him; the others get nothing because they’re not loud enough.(audit is always favored since the CEO is/was an audit partner) Everything is a political game and if you aren’t in with the right people you’ll never get anywhere within the organization. They are stubborn and refuse to recognize the changing labor market. NYC has hundreds if not thousands of other firms; this one is not worth considering. Go to an actual midsized firm where they want you to grow, learn and succeed not just put your head down for 20 years and hope sometimes retires so you can take on their book.

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No work is assigned to you, so even in audit you will do tax work. You'll spend your days hunting for work, and then you volunteer to learn something new and they won't let you. Then you get yelled at for not having more billable hours. You pretty much have to sit at your desk don't talk, and if you have no people skills / willing to bring people down you'll move right up. The office is very toxic and HR is practically useless. They pride themselves on paying overtime, but they give you way below market vacation days. You also have 120 hours baked into your salary of overtime, so you get stuck working 14 hour days in busy season. 6 days in your first year and 9 days in your second year. You spend weeks on end with next to no work because your job is not transactional. They are better off giving 21 vacation days like every other decent firm does and doing away with the banked overtime because you end up getting less days.

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