Plante Moran reviews

-Huge shift in leadership across the firm. There’s lots of decisions being made at the higher levels being barked down. -Shift to in person work (masked as principally in person) and using this as firing/performance metrics during most recent reviews -They have stopped reimbursing exam fees for your CPA license after 3 year anniversary at the firm but you are still expected to have/work towards the license. No where have I ever seen a company require a license for your position, reap the benefit of it, but not compensate you for it. -Pay, significantly less than industry and barely with market for public accounting firms. The worst part is the salary difference between different roles. There currently is only a 6k difference between a brand new hire and a senior (3+ years experience) - gossip culture. Partners/managers constantly talk badly about other staff, other teams, and even clients. Some even seem to keep tabs on everyone’s personal life and details. -the turnover has been “lower” than average and as a result it seems as if “there’s not enough work to go around” but it’s your responsibility to meet your hour expectation. -They recently asked PM employees to start posting reviews which should tell you they’re doing preventive damage control

This is the least professional office I've ever worked at and unfortunately nothing is going to change because some of the worst gossips are the partners. A partner should never gossip with staff or seniors but they will openly badmouth anyone who decides to leave (as if high turnover in public accounting is anything unique) to lower level employees for the entire office to hear. When you do quit they'll try and manipulate you you out of leaving with the most ridiculous lies about how once you leave public accounting your career and compensation will stagnate, and unfortunately people fall for it and don't even realize the culture is toxic because it's their first job out of college.