Dixon Hughes Goodman Reviews

Pros

Encouraged to work on your own and to develop client relationships, Very good work - life balance,
Excellent oppourtunities for advancement, Good Pay and benefits, Excellent Training provided

Cons

Long hours during busy season, hey we are an accounting firm and busy season happens.

Advice to Senior Management

Management has done well with the recent merger (April 2011) between Dixon Hughes and Goodman & Co. The merger has combine two very vibrant organizations and we are continuing to understand the strengths of each organization and the synergies created with the the merging of the two organizations.

Pros

Fun people, flexible work hours, good benefits, willingness to accomodate employee life events to help career and personal goals be achieved, good commitment to quality and integrity, great quality of recruitment efforts, personal touch on client engagements

Cons

unclear communication, sometimes it seems promotions are not given based on talent so much as seniority, pay is less than desired for level of output, missed opportunities for incentives/rewards for hard work.

Pros

The people are great. You have great exposure to managers and partners

Cons

Long hours during tax season and no extra compensation for this

Advice to Senior Management

Give better feedback, and more structure into how we get work to do

Pros

Great company culture, working directly for partners who are willing to take the time to teach you. In your first year or two in the company you have the option to work in both tax and audit sectors gaining valuable experience. Overall I am very satisfied with the company. I look forward to seeing DHG grow into the top 10!

Cons

Because of the recent merger some ares of the company are not 100% cohesive such as hiring criteria, benefits, etc. We are still in the first year so things should be straightened out soon.

Pros

- flex schedule
- great learning environment if you work with the right in-charges
- during tax season catered meals on Saturdays
- if you are lucky can expect a great balance of work in both attestation and tax worlds that can further your non-public opportunities in the future (be aware though where the need is at the time as you are pushed to that direction whether you like it or not)

Cons

- the mentoring-coaching program needs some serious improvements
- high degree of favoritism in the various departments and jobs even when you haven't had a chance of proving yourself or even work with certain managers (it's absurd though feeling like in school)
- the workload is crazy and if you are doing well expect more to do and more complex projects (sometimes humans need a break after working 50-60 hours for several consecutive weeks and this is not even in tax season)
 I saw several comments about great benefits. I'm not sure about what one is talking. the 20 days vacation is actually PTO - this includes obviously sick, vacation and personal time off. It seems fantastic but when you are comparing it to working 60-70 hours for several months of the year (and by the way obviously you are not being compensated for overtime or weekends), it is not a lot at all and on top of that you have to make up the hours rather quickly - think about budgeted hours goals... and I also believe that the insurances offered are pretty standard too. 401K is Ok, at least we have it - have been working for couple years now and I still haven't seen a match...

Advice to Senior Management

please listen to your employees not only to the favorite ones - some of the people we lost would have been great opportunities to the company and we let them go. also, I don't think some managers/partners should be in-charges - if cannot let them go, please provide them more soft skills training and the consumate professional training would be good for them as well (I learned a lot about myself and things to do and not to do in general - it was a well-worthy training).

Pros

Great benefits. Great opportunities. Competent management. They are definitely doing the right things to make DHG a very competitive firm and to potentially become a larger firm.

Cons

Tax season - if you are not able to work the long hours, I would not recommend this industry, which can be very tedious.

Advice to Senior Management

Competent management. They are definitely doing the right things to make DHG a very competitive firm and to potentially become a larger firm.

Pros

The office used to have a small firm feel where the employer cared for the employees; however, the firm has recently taken a different approach and is only going after larger clients, creating a big 4 feel.

Cons

As stated above, the firm no longer has a small firm feel where the employees are appreciated. The firms focus is on very large clients and the company is now leaving their smaller clients, clients who have been with the firm for years, behind.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership at Dixon Hughes needs to learn to communicate, there is a grave lack of communication between the leadership and everyone else.

Pros

Good resource network as all locations are linked

Cons

Lateral highers are more valued than firm-raised employees

Advice to Senior Management

Consider your valuable employees

Pros

You can get a lot of experience in traveling and working directly with the Controller and CFO or a small company.

Cons

This place is very similar to a Big 4, but big companies do not see it that way. So bascially, you will do a lot of work and receive no "Big 4" stamp when you leave. I think the average DH employee is much brighter than any Big 4 employee. We have a consulting client, and there are about 20-30 DH employees and 30-40 Deloitte employees. The client likes DH a lot better. Deloitte is only there because of the name. I was not impressed with the intelect of any of the Deloitte employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't send out emails to the staff telling us that you used the Firm's money to do a study that proved that the benefits you were giving us were better than the competition, and therefore, benefits are going to be reduced. That is not how you gain loyalty.

Pros

Better work life balance than a Big 4 Firm. Good benefits. Good clients in offices in larger cities. Overall the partners care about their employees.

Cons

Company is growing fast through mergers and aquisitions and not all offices are up to par with the rest of the firm. Training could be better.

Advice to Senior Management

Some offices need a better leverage model to push work down from partners to managers to staff as this would help employees advance quicker and add more value to clients.