Great career opportunity, but unless you are willing to make work your first priority I would not recommend. - Anonymous employee RSM Employee Review

2.0
27 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pretty decent salary and good opportunity for promotion. Ability to transfer to other offices in different areas. Large well-known firm. Looks good on your resume.

Cons

Office is in a terrible location, parking is a major headache, and the actual layout of the office is very undesirable for my taste, as you have basically zero privacy. Too much administrative burden placed on professional staff. Work life balance not as advertised. You are told in the interviewing process that busy season is 55 hours/week and that you will have flexibility to work remotely as needed so long as you get your work done. However, I would estimate busy season hours to be closer to 80 than 55 and while technically you can work from home, no one at the associate and senior associate levels do and if you do decide to work from home it is definitely looked down upon. Several of the reviewers are very petty and seem to go out of their way to pick your work apart over very small and nittpicky things that have no effect on the accuracy of the return. Things like spacing in the cover letters, a comma or dash that needs to be added to there liking, a change sentence structure(though the message remains the same). A lot of these items are very subjective and whimsical in nature and dependent on the mood of the reviewer, but you often get very patronizing feedback for not anticipating or recognizing every tiny little minutia according to their taste. The result is a ton of wasted time and major inefficiency.

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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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