Bachecki, Crom & Company Reviews

Pros

It is in a great location and they offer great benefits. You will learn a lot about bankruptcy laws in preparing tax returns. They offer massages during tax season and birthday cake for your birthday. The compensation is fair for some positions and in others it is totally based on how well you can take a beating from the managing partner. If you are just starting out this is a good place for you to work, the first year or two will be great here. There are no cubicles here, even entry level employees get an office with a view.

Cons

Downsides for working at BCC are a plenty. The major one is that the Managing Partner has created an abusive environment towards his employees. The only people that continue to work there feel as though they are "stuck" for various different reasons (i.e. limited education, over 50, declining job market). In the time that I was there two partners and thirteen other employees quit, ranging from administrative staff to senior management. I hadn't even been there ten years. Their tax practice is a joke. They are extremly overpriced. What individual wants to pay upwards of a thousand dollars for a simple tax return. They have lost numerous tax clients over the years due to incompetency and overpricing. If you are offered a partnership; Don't Take It. You will be a partner in name only and your opinion will never count for anything, believe me I know. There is no work life balance or flexibility. It was not uncommon to hear someone walking down the hall saying "and the beatings will continue until morale improves".

Advice to Senior Management

Hire people that are competent and that you have a need for. It makes no since to keep hiring people just so that you can fill an empty office. You should actually care about your employees and thier total well being and not just the well being of your company. Work on having a work/life balance for your employees and really mean it. Creative criticizm is appreciated and needed for any job to thrive, but that should not be the only time you have something to say to your employees. Show some recognition and a little praise for a job well done. When you don't treat your employees with respect morale goes out the window. When you say you have an open door policy that should also include an open mind policy. Try to see things from someone else's point of view.

Pros

Challenging work in the litigation support and estate planning areas
Very nice people to work with

Cons

tax season is a bit challenging

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to seek out additional quality team members to join the firm

Pros

Nice offices - free sodas

Cons

As others have said, the Managing Partner is not nice. He seems to take an interest in us at first - but then WATCH OUT - cause he's very unpleasant and difficult much of the time.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and clients. You don't know all the answers. Management style here is awful. If your employees are not treated with respect, that eventually comes back at you. Your clients learn of it, and then leave. Most of your current clients already know what sort of Managing Partner runs the firm - and most are on their way out. All the rent paid on these empty offices could be used to pay bonuses, or do things to increase morale.

Pros

Experience that I got in bankruptcy and bankruptcy accounting - and a private office

Cons

Very difficult managing partner. Sometimes he's good. Often he's in upset for no one knows what reason. Communication is not good. Training - little. Boss yells openly in the office many many times - not much tact. Employees are ALL unhappy with the boss and the situation, but everyone is afraid to talk to the guy.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management is the problem. Change senior management and the company might make it. Maybe you should merge with a larger firm, and turn the company over to someone who is competent at managing people.

Pros

It's a good place to learn bankruptcy tax law, and some very basic accounting and tax skills.

Cons

Managing Partner is abusive toward his employees. Success in this environment is based on one's willingness to take abuse from the boss.

Advice to Senior Management

Why is it that all those offices are empty? Why is it that no one stays as a partner? Why all the turnover in employees, since the current management took over in 1998? You've got very serious issues. With the current management structure, it's no wonder you can't keep employees, partners or clients - wouldn't you agree at this point?