Consulting Associate - Honest Review - Anonymous employee RSM Employee Review

3.0
25 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice salary for entry-level role, work experience is good for resume (recruiters reach out all the time with positions), and some of the people you work with are great

Cons

- There is a lot of favoritism causing people whom the manager's and partners favorite to get promoted faster and be on the better clients. - There is a lack of work-life balance during busy season for employee's whom have many projects. - There is an inequality in amount of work spread to employees: some people work 80 hours a week and others work 35 hours a week - There is an expectation that you don't take vacation during busy season, however, if you're a senior associate and above - feel free to take multiple weeks off during the busiest time of year. - There is a lot of hostility in the workplace and i don't care for the way some people treat me. Note: I know there are a lot of negative points, and your probably wondering why i still work here. Basically, i am still an employee waiting to be promoted so i can leave and find a company that actually cares and has a quality work-life balance.

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Cons

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Pros

- As assurance associate that came over from another public accounting firm, some pros are the ability to work with several different teams. - Hybrid, 2-4 days in office - Learn from senior associates - At my last acct firm never did inventory observations, so got the chance to see what that was like here at RSM

Cons

- Some seniors associates aren’t able to explain or teach which plays a part in your development as a first year associate or intern. I feel first year, intern should be able to leave feedback on senior associates. As if I’m having trouble with a senior who am I supposed to go, due to the hierarchy system they have implemented at RSM. - Can be Clicky & your colleagues will be friends in your face and talk behind you behind your back, I’ve seen it happen to others so I’m pretty sure it happened to me. Houston office can be toxic - Hierarchy system, leave people thinking with senior job titles that they are above you and you can be treated like sh*t - Favortism, you don’t have an equal chance here, because every first year is not put in the same position to succeed. Some first years are able to work closely with partners and the same colleagues but different clients which is where they can have the opportunity to build great relationships while some have to bounce from senior to senior having to learn for each client and adapt to how the senior wants the job done which in turn doesn’t help build relationships. As one can senior want something done such as accounts payable one way then you get to another client and the senior wants accounts payable done another way which makes you look bad in their eyes. Which doesn’t set you up for success at all and can overall lead to a layoff.

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