McGladrey Reviews

Pros

The clients I got a chance to work on were a good mix. The technology the company uses is ok. CPE is provided by the company.

Cons

Partners, directors, and managers only care about themselves. They will complain to each other about how the seniors and staff are not meeting budget and getting the job done but they are not there to help out. Too much backstabbing going on.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees like human beings and with respect. The morale was really low when I left and is still low based on contact I have with employees still there.

Pros

McGladrey is a stepping stone, not a place where you want to spend your career. McGladrey it is a decent place for the average students to get some experience they can leverage in the accounting industry to get into the big 4. Also, it is a good two year weigh station where good performers from the big 4 can, stop in for two years and bump up thier compensation.

Cons

Career advisor systems is a joke, no advice at all really adn the compensation model is a black box.
It is VERY political
The company cannot decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
The upcoming buy out is going to crimp comensation for the foreseeable future

Advice to Senior Management

You have talked the talk for YEARS now, but you have NEVER walked the walk. You lack any credibility.

Pros

up and coming firm, lots of opportunity

Cons

in a time of growth, there is a lot of work to do

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing

Pros

Challenging, Change of environment, Travel, Benefits, Time off,

Cons

Thrown under the bus, learn on the field over and over again (training is provided on nationwide level, but each local firm operates differently depending on the manager), partners don't know how to use updated software so staff have to work extra to change workpapers for easy viewing for partners/managers, budget/actual time are unrealistic,

Advice to Senior Management

Seniors are dropping like flies. A better system should be implemented to prevent this.

Pros

Flexible - eg: medical emergency

Cons

No mentorship, does not attract experienced talent, promote employees not ready -hinders morale of employees not promoted, many clicks/teachers pets, lacks diversity

Advice to Senior Management

Promote fairly, treat employees equally, re-design space

Pros

I worked with many great people over the years. You will come accross some very smart and wonderful people.

Cons

Unfortunately there are just as many unpleasant people working there, people who expect you to do there job and your own. Senior management is not supportive. The Boston office environment is cut throat and there is a great deal of back stabbing and management trying to shift blame down on to their supervisors, seniors and staff. Do not expect to have a life working here, however also expect to be given ridiculous expectations as far as budgets and lack of help. This is the worst work experience I have had in the past 20 years. When I began at McGladrey I did not feel this way, and I can only speak to the Boston office environment. Working in this office is a thankless job where nothing you ever do will be good enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Take responsibility - for you people - show them respect.

Pros

McGladrey is like a normal CPA firm. Different variety of basic and complex work to gain lots of experience. CPA Reimbursement.

Cons

Definitely no work like balance. Work is not evenly distributed. Some people get more work than other. Compensation still not up to level with competitors.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to make an effective way to "really" take care of their people and award them in the right way for all the hard work.

Pros

Semi valuable public accounting experience.
Can free coffee/soda be considered an actual pro?
At least I still receive a paycheck.

Cons

Company is CHEAP.
Morale couldn't possibly be much lower.
Turnover is very high.
Unable to provide quality services to clients due to a lack of sufficiently skilled resources.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to provide world class services, you need to recruit, pay and retain world class employees. Due to low morale and high turnover, the best people have already left and the remaining employees are struggling to conduct the daily fire drills.

Pros

Challenging, variety of assignment, great experience, client focused, lots of opportunity
Variety
Experience
Client focused
Opportunity

Cons

Unrealistic expectations
of employees.
Not enough emphasis on strategy.

Advice to Senior Management

Heading in right direction with the reunion of the firm and RSM.

Pros

Good experience with complex transactions
Good client base

Cons

Employees are frequently told by superiors that they are stupid if they aren't able to self teach complex tasks
This sums up how people are generally treated:
Highly ranked senior whose father died suddenly and unexpectedly during busy season and wanted one day off for the funeral was told "I guess you can take the day off but you're going to have to work twice as hard the rest of the days this week"
Highly ranked senior asked for help getting their schedule under control after working many 85+hour work weeks from their career advisor was told "if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen"

They have never promoted anyone to the manager level that was not hired directly out of school.

80+ hour work weeks in busy season and 50 hour weeks the rest of the year

Management doesn't care about people, even the very best and brightest people, just how billable and profitable they are.