Hostile Work Environment - Assurance Senior Associate RSM Employee Review

1.0
Aug 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The only positive thing about any public firm is the overall experience you get by working on multiple clients and in different industries.

Cons

Honestly the management at RSM is below horrific. Managers all the way up to Partners make this a poor place to work and you might as well go back to high school. Managers/Partners will pick their favorites solely based on superficial characteristics. You work your butt off and get a 2 grand bonus for the year that is later taxed down that it can hardly cover 1 months worth of rent. Nobody actually cares about your career path even though they will try and say you will just to get you to stay, so you can make $30K less than the market value and work 500 more hours during the year. Public accounting is what it is, but this placed showed me how to NOT be professional and NOT act with integrity.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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