Grant Thornton, LLP Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Employee unity, top technological resources, great leadership, feedback is always considered, excellent benefits, hourly employees are treated like full-time employees.

Cons – Lack of formal training, marketing internships tend to not have future full-time opportunities, and that's really all I can even try to stretch.

Advice to Senior Management – Thank you for all your guidance, support, and friendship. My time as your protege will always be remembered as a time of great professional and personal growth.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – GT has great national training center. Managers work hard and know their stuff. The partners have an open door policy and are available to talk.

Cons – Work can be tedious at the grinders level. Senior are often way over worked and aren't happy.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more award of staff needs.

Current Employee – been working at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Training Opportunities
The firm supports acquiring professional certifications for its staff
Excellent support staff to assist
Worked on some great projects

Cons – Lack of integrity from management
Be prepared to hear one thing and get surprised with another; usually negative
Ineffective coaching structure
Inability to see the future and how you can contribute

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to treat people better and keep them updated more often. There's never 100% work available, but set expectatations for staff early and often

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Work for a highly organzied, competent, global company that is on the cutting edge of technology. Willing to pay for advanced training.

Cons – Not much room for promotion or role change. New positions have been continually filled from the outside along with vacated positions. Current staff has been there for many years and some are extremely knowledgeable which makes promotion even harder, but even they aren't promoted to new openings which is why they have been in the same position for so long.

Advice to Senior Management – Work to promote your internal talent and open opportunities for advancement other than requiring moving to new cities to be involved in things. IT is a "mobile" field and should be treated as such instead of making everybody come to the "mother ship" for the opportunity. Many talented workers continue to leave because of these issues so you will eventually be outside looking in at your competitors if this keeps up much longer.

Current Employee – been working at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – The people I work with are very helpful. Everyone does a good job of explaining what needs to be completed.

Cons – The long hours during busy season. Less people with more work with insufficient compensation makes working here in a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management – If they are going to increase the workload they need to increase the compensation. Rating system needs to be improved.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Great Pay
Great Training
Great opportunities for advancement and strong encouragement to do so. Rewarded for staying with the company.

Cons – Work Life Balance was hard to handle at first. Gets better the longer you stay with the company. They really try to help you balance, really seem like they care.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – - Competent people to work with
- True interest by most in government and customers
- Delivered value to customers
- OK work/life balance

Cons – - Lack of competent back office support
- Lot of infighting among partners
- Bad behavior permitted from those with sales success
- Lack of credibility in management communications
- Management upheaval in 2010 resulted in a drastic drop in leadership
- Utilization has dropped markedly, leading to layoffs
- Interference in sales process has led to losing recompetes and new competitions
- Losing ground to Deloitte, PWC, etc.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house at the top (GPS managing partner, COO, strategy officer) and with infrastructure leads and staff. Get rid of partners who won't work as a team. Rebuild with a competent, credible leader.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Training Resources, brand recognition, professional exposure

Cons – Very political, goofballs promoted, god forbid you let them know you have children. Downhill from there!

Advice to Senior Management – Consider practicing what you preach.

Current Employee – been working at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – Access to senior management/leadership, the social aspect of GT is great, training and post education is encouraged, young work force

Cons – Need to improve communication, teach practitioners self awarness, provide meaningful performance feedback, a more fluid organization structure, accountablity for chargeable hours.

Current Employee – been working at Grant Thornton, LLP

Pros – There are lots of opportunities to learn

Cons – Compensation and recognition of a job well done is lacking.