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2.0
Nov 23, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good exposure with wide projects/clients/industry coverage - Small team scale which allows for higher ownership of projects/clients - Good office location

Cons

- Deeply rooted cultural issues; heavily traditional in thinking and conduct - Top heavy; some management may be put in place due to longer tenure and not due to competency - Management tends to be self-seeking in terms of bonuses/salaries/incentives and may not "fight" for junior staff - Inefficient hierarchical structure; middle/upper-middle management may not feedback issues to top management as they prefer not to "rock the boat" - Benefits/incentives are negligible - Disproportioned workload and pay structure - Poor renumeration; despite positioning as 5th in Professional Services/top mid-tier firm, other mid-tiers have higher renumeration packages - Changes and suggestions may not be well-received

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 24, 2026
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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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