Crowe Horwath Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Clients, work experience, flexibility, benefits

Cons – Co indicated it would invest in enhancing its training program

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

Former Employee – worked at Crowe Horwath full-time

Pros – Having a CEO with the vision ours does, motivates the entire organization to operate as the best in class firm they are, aiming to become the #5 CPA firm in the world. You will not find many officers with the enthusiasm and drive this group does.

Cons – To be honest... I've been with just about all the large firms. Crowe just doesn't have any cons.

Advice to Senior Management – Find the best Branding professional possible.

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

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – People, work environment, variety of clients

Cons – Reactive management, slow to integrate new technology, understanding the next generation's need

Advice to Senior Management – Need move beyond the old boys club and the Midwestern conservatism. Take a leading role be proactive and not reactive

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Easily accessible partners
New work/challenges with every client
Good/hard work = recognition with Sr. Leadership
Quarterly travel bonus

Cons – Go-live always trumps holiday
College-hire training is non-existent
Client demand drives timeline regardless of feasibility or availability
Sales team is not connected to delivery, resulting is over-promising

Advice to Senior Management – Don't let clients burn through YOUR people. Find meaningful work for new hires to do establish a true mentoring program to bring newbies up to speed. Don't make overworked individuals take time to tell you they are overworked.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for less than a year

Pros – -Great Coworkers and Management
-Well Compensated
-Good Work/Life Balance

Cons – -Health benefits are slightly expensive, but good coverage.

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

Former Employee – worked at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Paid Time Off (if you can find time to use it)
Health Benefits (if you can find time to get to the doctor)
Mileage Reimbursement (if you can find time to enter your expenses)

Cons – No brand recognition in the marketplace- for such a large firm, this fact is mind blowing.

Executive leadership is clueless as to how to run a successful business. Many partners spend a majority of their time behind their desks, instead of going out and visiting their clients, selling to prospects, and motivating their people.

The hard working employees that provide boundless value and solid leadership get questioned, fired, and treated like criminals, and the incompetent, the unethical, and the sociopaths are favored and promoted.

Senior and executive leadership with diabolical egos and limitless greed feebly attempt to manage service lines that they don't understand, trying to force square pegs through round holes, micromanaging/harassing, tying up valuable time by having pointless meetings to talk about having more pointless meetings, demanding people to meet inappropriate and impossible goals; all causing for an inexplicable waste of time, resources, and money. Not only does it cause for waste and a hostile environment, but it also basically forces people into providing atrocious client service, unwittingly tarnishing their professional reputations; all of which is incredibly mentally and emotionally disheartening to those who highly value professionalism and putting their clients first.

Another issue emanating from this lack of understanding is that profitable, quality, annuity engagements are turned away, while unprofitable, one-off engagements are pursued.

When senior and executive leadership are approached about these issues, they blame their current people, and fire them without acknowledging or taking any accountability. When one reaches out to other resources within the firm about these issues, they blatantly get swept under the rug; and the issues continue regardless of numerous middle management and staff turnovers, and exit interview testimonies.

Salaries are below comparable market salaries, and all staff level employees are excluded from the bonus pool. When it comes to raises – be prepared to fight tooth and nail for $30 more per paycheck.

These problems aren’t just limited to one service line…they exist firm wide. The firm is on the fast track to running itself into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management – Leadership needs to drop their egos and start pointing their fingers in the mirror. If you are the leader and your team fails, you are the one to blame. Stop sitting at your desks behind your computers obsessing over data that provides no insight into profitability, and over who you're going to fire next in an attempt to make it look like you're managing, and start selling, motivating, and leading by positive example.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than a year

Pros – Ability to move up quickly.

Cons – Lower pay than the big 4.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more competitively in order to retain employees.

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

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for less than a year

Pros – For IT audit, you get to travel a lot, meet new co-workers, and do a lot of work.

Cons – You can feel like a small fish in a big pond, and get lost because you can sometimes don't get enough instruction.

Advice to Senior Management – Management should create a better training experience more slowly and make sure you get involved more slowly instead of being thrown into an audit career.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work/life balance. Large variety of clients. Opportunities for good employees are limitless.

Cons – Alot of small clients, summers are filled with 401K audits, not many public companies outside of banking.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't rate employees as "exceeding expectations" and give them a 4-7% raise. You are losing to many valuable employees to your competitors solely due to compensation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Crowe Horwath full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Leaders who care, diverse client base, ability to focus on what is interesting to you, flexibility, work-life balance

Cons – Limited partner advancement, midwest management doesn't really appreciate doing business in other cities, growth objectives are being led by people who have never achieved the targeted level of business

Advice to Senior Management – leadership team should include some external personnel who have seen the revenue levels that are being targeted

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