Aronson & Co Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good compensation, work/life balace, company culture, consistantly won Best Place to Work survey

Cons – No-privacy cubicles/offices (walls are too low and thin!), bad coffee!!!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Alternative Work Arrangements
Good Location
Social Activities
Good Benefits

Cons – Better opportunities for professional/client service staff than admin

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co full-time

Pros – Regional firm; seems to be great if you have a family and would want to work flex time in the Rockville area; associates/senior associates are very friendly

Cons – lack of growth; lack of public clients; focus on keeping one office yet most of the new growth in the area is located in Northern Virginia; mandatory busy season hours yet there is not enough work to meet this billable hour goal; very billable hour driven (I know all accounting firms are but this place is ridiculous); make you take personal time if you want to attend company outings (i.e. golf event, outdoor activity, etc.)

Advice to Senior Management – Management wants us to get involved in different areas (i.e. recruiting, community service, etc.) yet when it comes time to bonus it is just based on billable hours. Contribution to the firm and activities it supports should be equated in your bonus calculation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aronson & Co

Pros – Good benefits. Some very good managers.

Cons – Tax season expectations. Some bad managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Take management skills into account when promoting employees.

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co

Pros – Co-workers, managers, and partners for the most part are very nice people who treat the employees with respect. Reasonable busy season hours and very flexible with employees who have special circumstances and need time off or who need flexible work schedules

Cons – Like in all accounting firms, employees are pressured for billable hours, sometimes corners are cut because of high billing rates. Employees sometimes feel pressure to "eat their time" because of billing pressures.

Advice to Senior Management – Employees and managers are kept in the dark about the direction of the firm or how the firm is doing .

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co

Pros – They are very flexible to keep good people so even if you have things going on in your life, they will really work with you to find a way to make it work for you. Lots of people work from home some of the time, work schedules different than 8-5, but still get 40 hours in, or work 30 hours a week except during tax season.

Cons – They do have required minimum hours during tax season, like all CPA firms, that really limit your ability to balance anything with work, especially a family or life.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a better look at how we approach tax season because it's just not a good long term plan for employee's to require them to work 60 hours a week for six weeks every single year. This is one of the major reasons why turnover is so high in our field. If we cross-trained audit people in tax more, then it could help provide some of the temporary help that we need to get to April 15th.

Honestly, the IRS just needs to revamp the due dates for the various returns so there isn't the need for the cram session in April.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Aronson & Co full-time

Pros – interesting work, nice people, some very skilled managers and partners

Cons – some micro managers, long busy season hours, keep staff in dark regarding firm operations, HR department and internal acccounting seem to have no clue about the work employees do

Advice to Senior Management – Replace managers that have minimal technical skills

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aronson & Co

Pros – good location, plenty of parking, not much good to say here, I work there for 3 years average 80 hours/week during the busy season and had enough. Turnover is continuous since employees are pretty much working there because they are scare of job market out there. Decent salary but not worth to give your life for.

Cons – Partner are aggressive in realizing unrealistic profitability meaning that you will be working 80 to 90 hours to fulfill their margin requirement. Work to take home is must during the busy season. Very open environment design so management will peek on your computer screen.

Advice to Senior Management – Should hire and retain more associates. Cant expect staff to perform 3 person job in one position. Pretty soon you will have nobody want to work for the firm

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aronson & Co

Pros – Beautiful office
Aronson moved to new office two years ago. New office has open setup and fabulous design. A lot of meeting rooms in new office.
Competent management
Jeff Capron replaced Lisa Cine to be new managing director.
Great peers
Dozen of young staff join company every year while some long time employee spend more than 20 years here
Flexible schedule
Partners are very reasonable

Cons – long hours; need to push manager for promotion; high turnover

Advice to Senior Management – keeping competent staff

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Aronson & Co

Pros – Can be flexible...for the right people
Good location embedded in a nice community
Modern office space - but loathe the "open concept"
Nice large lunch room

Cons – Micromanagers are all around you
Lack of strong leadership in some departments
Jail cell feeling of the "open concept" office design - prisoners vs. wardens feel
Minimal work load

Advice to Senior Management – Rethink how to retain strong employees and begin to develop or release the dead weight.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend