Within this group, you work with individuals that are all around the U.S which makes it difficult to have work life balance. It is not unusual to have the team call you at 8:00 PM when you are catching up on work because everyone is busy with back to back calls during the day.
Overall I experience no support from management and from my experience, people tend to point fingers even if it was not your wrong doings, so the culture is not the best within this department. To protect yourself from others mistakes, you constantly have to be sending recap e-mails of conversations, next steps, deadlines, and how you were advised to do something so you are not scapegoated which takes time within itself and that the best environment if you constantly have to do that.
If you are looking for somewhere to grow, this group is not it because it is a very cliquish mentality you are in the group or not which will impact your ability to grow within the company or they will silence you out.
During the interviews individuals seemed nice, however, when you actually start working with them, it is a different story. I have personally been cursed at, pulled frequent all nighters, and it is not uncommon to have 4:00 AM team meetings to be back online at 8:00 AM to start your work again, although they tell you in the interview this is not common, this happens more frequently.
You will have to stay on top of your chargeable hours which is hard to do because management is rated on keeping the engagement within budget and as a staff/ senior staff you want to bill more hours to the clients. It is difficult to meet charge hours goals because many projects are poorly defined and scoped.
There are other departments that are better within Crowe although you will work a lot of hours bc it is the industry of Public Accounting at least you will not compromise your health and well-being.
