Cultural dump - Senior Assurance Associate RSM Employee Review

2.0
Feb 18, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Office and amenities are pretty nice and modern. Some of the partners and managers are pretty cool and down to earth people, and help balance out the crap ones. Definitely met a few partners who seemed to care about the employees and wanted them to stay.

Cons

Culture is clicky, snippy managers, staff and seniors who act like we are still high school. Never seen people get so giddy when someone got canned (even when they never met them). Half the managers I worked with were just faking it, training (and this goes for the firm as a whole) is a step above mediocre (alright not terrible but not good/great), little recognition for your work (when something goes right it’s the client, when something goes wrong it’s you). New staff get treated like garbage. There’s a few good partners there who I genuinely do think care about the employees, but they don’t exert any pressure on the culture / seem relatively disconnected and don’t understand the cultural issues at hand at the lower levels. Staff quality seemed to have dropped each year.

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5.0
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Pros

The people are nice and flexible WFH

Cons

The pay is below big 4

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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