Here for the long run! - Tax Preparer Optima Tax Relief Employee Review

5.0
May 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Upper management is completely open for ways to improve the flow and work environment. - Company culture seems equivalent to google/facebook. Optima makes sure the staff is happy. Its a no brainer that happy employees have a higher production rate and better quality of work produced. - Goals and expectations are realistic - Supportive team

Cons

It is understandable to begin in a different department with lower pay to learn the companies dynamics BUT waiting 3 months or LONGER to be placed in the department that was actually applied for is a bit long. And I have never heard of a company having a stipulation that my advancement is dependent on the status of the class/new hires who were just brought in.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Flexible for the most part (for now) Happy that there are less agents. i just hope they don't over hire once or if it gets busier. Hope there are improvements and environment gets better like the old Optima days.

Cons

-Not much culture left. -Taken away bonuses. keeps getting worse and more strict rules and changes. -Wish they would have a rule where employees who drive far have more opportunity to work from home again. I personally do better and wouldn't have to waste so much time on the road in traffic. i can spend more time with family and I could be working more if anything.... As long as the money is still decent during slow times and I'm not going into my savings. Then we're good. I hope it gets busy again and they don't over hire once it does.... -Servicing/back-end needs to do better work. Us sales agent's and company lose A LOT of money due to this. Has been giving our company a bad name/brand. We are not the only company out there anymore. there's a lot of competition. Hopefully they listen to their employees since we also deal with the back lash from the back end complaints. Not cool for our clients to spend a lot of money and be ignored afterwards.

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