I do not care how desperate you are. You should really keep looking. - Senior Associate RSM Employee Review

1.0
Jul 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Because I want to give a decently fair shake, I will have to say that when you come from another firm they give you an okay pay raise. There are a few people that it is a pleasure to work with. They have a soda machine - no more cups though. So unless you bring a cup, you are not going to get anything to drink. There is constantly something going on so there is always food. Their new years eve party is amazing as you have the best view in the city.

Cons

I am not even sure where to begin. I want to choose my words carefully as I do not want to actually create any lawful action. The extreme lack of communication leads to outright confusion. The firm, as well as individual groups are so top heavy that it doesnt even make sense. I have personally been subject to anti-semitic remarks. People are down right rude and socially awkward. There is absolutely no training or guidance. Even though there are so many high level people, it seems as if they were promoted based on "time served" and not knowledge, because there are very few if any experts. There are questionable ethics in place, in a business sense and in a moral sense (this I will not go into detail other then to say no one should ever have to put their name or their license at risk). Almost like high school, the top-heaviness of the groups and abundance of managers lead to a complete disconnect and are in constant competition with eachother. It almost seems as if people try to put others down to make their client or project look better. There is absolutely no comradery. I would not have stayed in this firm even if they quadrupled my salary. There is so much I want to say and so many people I want to individually tarnish - and one day some people will get their due - but not on a review on glassdoor. I highly recommend that people avoid this firm.

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Pros

- As assurance associate that came over from another public accounting firm, some pros are the ability to work with several different teams. - Hybrid, 2-4 days in office - Learn from senior associates - At my last acct firm never did inventory observations, so got the chance to see what that was like here at RSM

Cons

- Some seniors associates aren’t able to explain or teach which plays a part in your development as a first year associate or intern. I feel first year, intern should be able to leave feedback on senior associates. As if I’m having trouble with a senior who am I supposed to go, due to the hierarchy system they have implemented at RSM. - Can be Clicky & your colleagues will be friends in your face and talk behind you behind your back, I’ve seen it happen to others so I’m pretty sure it happened to me. Houston office can be toxic - Hierarchy system, leave people thinking with senior job titles that they are above you and you can be treated like sh*t - Favortism, you don’t have an equal chance here, because every first year is not put in the same position to succeed. Some first years are able to work closely with partners and the same colleagues but different clients which is where they can have the opportunity to build great relationships while some have to bounce from senior to senior having to learn for each client and adapt to how the senior wants the job done which in turn doesn’t help build relationships. As one can senior want something done such as accounts payable one way then you get to another client and the senior wants accounts payable done another way which makes you look bad in their eyes. Which doesn’t set you up for success at all and can overall lead to a layoff.

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