Clifton Gunderson Reviews

Pros

Supportive of professional and career growth. Respectful of staff.

Cons

The HR department is not very supportive or responsive to individual staff needs, especially if they have done something that adversely affects the employee by mistake.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue supporting the CEO, who has a great vision for where the firm should be headed. Also continue the values of the previous CEO, who treated the employees and their families as one big family.

Pros

Technical talent, collaboration, locations, favorable past history on partner resumes

Cons

Priority One feels like it protects firm more than helps employees when serious problems arise.

Advice to Senior Management

Too ideological. Her subordinates are not performing up to her ideology.

Pros

They care about work life balance

Cons

Very little mentoring or communication
Lots of career uncertainty
Don't feel valued as an employee
Favoritism and Cronyism are encouraged

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees when they provide feedback about their leaders and about the issues.

Pros

PA experience
some nice people
work/life balance (10-12 hours during busy season, sometimes 14, really not busy during off season)

Cons

disconnected group of employees (staff, managers, etc...) I work in Tax, there were days I came in to work and said no words to others. Not enough interpersonal connection.
Not a lot of employee activities, outing events

Advice to Senior Management

pay more attention to your employees. Let them know they are valued and appreciated. Dont play the favor game

Pros

You can get public accounting experience on your resume.

Cons

Work is based on quantity not quality.

Pros

Really great benefit package - tailored to fit employee's individual need. Top management/leadership support work/life balance - flexibility is embraced making it easier to balance family obligations with a good career. Leadership and management listen to staff about issues/concerns and actively work on correcting issues. Great training and development opportunities!

Cons

Growing pains due to recent mergers and acquisitions; still some morale issues because of communication/management style issues that occured in the past, but leadership has made positive steps in the right direction. Some whiners in the professional staff with hidden agendas who are unable to let the past stay in the past.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay focused on making positive changes. Keep up the good work. Continue to hold senior managers accountable for collaboration and communication. Stay true to vision of AEF 2015.

Pros

people really want better for the company

Cons

management has hidden agendas, not always honest. Rude and allow employees to disrespect other employees

Advice to Senior Management

Move the "old school partners and staff out".

Pros

Good work life balance and your schedule can be flexable.

Cons

Poor compensation and benefits. CG = Cheap Guys

Advice to Senior Management

Make an effort to care about your employees.

Pros

Nice people to work with.
Relatively easy job.
Not a lot of overtime (but when you do have to work overtime prepare yourself)
Good Pay

Cons

Not very good communication (thought they have been trying to work on it)
The job usually does not involve mainstream accounting work

Advice to Senior Management

Put yourself on your employees' shoes every once in a while. Other than that I think they are working on improving.

Pros

Conveniently located. Has interesting customers.

Cons

Prefers to hire those just entering the workplace so they don't have to pay as well.