Pros
- RSM as a whole is a great firm that truly knows what it wants to deliver to its clients - Depending on the industry you choose to work in, you will get to travel to many places around the U.S. - Firm covers lots of lunches at restaurants, happy hours, other celebrations - If you travel, you quickly accumulate tons of travel rewards points - If you're still working on your CPA exam, they cover the cost of review materials and the fees to take each section (they pay for each section one time) - There's a chance you might work with really cool and interesting clients - Lots of great exposure to different industries and individuals - Great access to CEOs, CFOs, upper management of companies that you don't get elsewhere when you're just coming out of college
Cons
- If you travel a lot, they used to have a great travel bonus program but they took that away, so for those who are stuck traveling 4-5 months out of the year, you have no incentives or perks, just a loss of any type of life outside of work. - The office constantly states they encourage a work-life balance but you are shunned if you so much as make an attempt to have a life outside of work - Many Managers and Partners tell you to always ask questions but once you do, they are openly annoyed and tell you to figure it out yourself/tell you they're busy/ignore you. - Managers and Partners don't care about staff, they give absolutely NO support and don't train or teach their staff at all and then get mad when staff asks a question or work is wrong (work would be better if they taught staff) - In-Charges (seniors) try to help but they have so much pressure on them they can't take the time to teach as much as they want to - Senior management and other areas of employees will drink with new staff in an unprofessional way. - Associates who suck up to the managers and partners are treated much better than associates who do their work and act professional - LOTS of gossip about fellow employees throughout the office. People will be nice to your face and act like they like you and want to help you, and then rip you apart in meetings/reviews. Managers and Partners also make fun of the students they meet during campus recruiting. - Lots of inappropriate behavior and treatment occurs, but nothing is ever done about it even if Managers/Partners/HR are told. HR does nothing to help. - They always press that they want you to move up in your career but do nothing to help you get there. They will assign you difficult audits/projects, give you no assistance, and then bash you when it's not done fast enough - TONS of favoritism - Compensation is subpar compared to other firms of the same size. - Managers pay no attention to their clients, they only care about the ones that have the highest fees, leaving Seniors to constantly come up with reasons to tell the client why their work isn't getting finished. - No support from upper management results in lower audit quality - Completely unrealistic budgets coupled with not enough resources Management needs to open their eyes and pay attention to what is happening in their office. Issues start at the top and fall downwards. This office will keep deteriorating until a significant change occurs and Staff is appreciated for their efforts, respected, supported, and gossiping and favoritism is eliminated. All of the focus is on the bottom line of the audits, which will be bad until staff/seniors are properly taught by their superiors. There's no consistency among the audits and no real training on how the firm wants work to be completed from start to finish. The "unity" and "encouragement" in the office is laughable.