What really matters is how Citrin Cooperman treats you, their employee, as a person. In short, they don't care. In exchange for treating you as a professional and expecting professional quality work, they instantly wash any cost they would have to pick up for having you as an employee.... to you.
1) Benefits. They like to claim they have a lot of benefits but mostly it's just the employees who pay 99% of it out of pocket. Medical, dental, vision, 401k. Are these not the main reasons why we reject universal healthcare? Because employers are supposed to offer and help pay for it? Not Citrin. Their philosophy is make it sounds like its a bargain that you get to pay for eveything. For $100 dollars a paycheck you get to have no healthcare coverage at all until you hit the 8,000 deductable.... ill wait for the applause. Or you can go with their copay plan except hospital stays plan for $700 a paycheck. Note, im saying a paycheck not per month. Sound outrageous? Well if you ask their HR they aparently say it amazing and they recommend the lower plan as it saves you money. Their theory is that if you just go to the doctors once a year (which they for you to) and you don't get treated for any health issues at all, then it's a steal, for the low low price of pay it yourself. But dont worry, if you cant afford to pay it yourself you can also... pay it yourself but with an HSA... Where you get money taken from your pay and still have to pay the doctors office directly before submiting the bill to a sleazy HSA plan who will decline your claim saying your doctors bill isnt a doctors bill. Then when you call and tell them they are wrong, they go..."oh... can you submit it again and wait another week until we can approve?"...Also they force you to go the doctors at least once a year or they raise only your insurance contribution. No lie.
Even the non financial benefits they are claiming, like the 7.5 hour workdays is a gimmick. There are few days you will have 7.5 hour days as you will have to not fall into one of the following scenarios: Clients asking for their finished product, managers asking if something can be done that day so they review, if you are scheduled on multiple jobs and need to pace out your 50 hour work week into 5 days, or want to take summer Fridays. (YES, if that sounds crazy, thats because it is. It was specifically explained to us that in order to take summer Fridays in the firm we would have to work additional hours during the first 4 days to make sure we have enough hours for the week to get off early during the summer Friday. Meaning if 1) you don't have enough work or 2) work a 50 week, you can't take summer Fridays.
2) Private Equity owned. Why is private equity bad? Because the reason #1 is so bad and will never change is because of reason #2. Private equity pumps millions of dollars into a company to help them automate and invest in greater and greater technology. The catch? Think shark tank. Mr wonderful doesn't give money to anyone he doesn't think won't return him his money back and a hefty return. The same goes for Citrin. They sold out their practice for money they used for their own bonuses, technology for the firm and purchasing smaller firms so they can actually staff their jobs . So how do they recoup those millions? They push all the benefits to the employees paycheck and pay average salaries. Then they lure people in with talks of competitive pay and benefits only to find out it's just buzz words. How does this help private equity? Well you will work like a dog, pay for your own benefits but theb they bill the client for 10-25 times your hourly rate (salary / 52 / 7 / 24). Yay for extortion!
Have you noticed I left out raises? That's because they offer all of their staff, senior and supervisors a lovely 3-5% pay raise once a year right at the same time they announce that they raised the deductable of the medical plans another 1-2,000 but then proudly tout about how insurance premiums haven't increased in 7 years... HR really should be a magician because they are so good at slight of hands.