RSM reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(7,330 total reviews)
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EJ Nedder

65% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

RSM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,330 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RSM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financeiro industry (3.7 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Jun 5, 2015

Audit Associate

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Have own table, superiors are friendly and willing to guide and teach

Cons

If you decide to leave you will see all kinds of ugly tricks played by the management. Most people leave with a bad taste and bad experience despite the good times they had during their 2 years bond

1.0
Dec 14, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Peers are friendly especially ground level staff - Location is good - Buddy system is good - Audit system: CaseWare is good - Good exposure (If fee is low but complex audit, assistant will have chances to do the job) - Training given is useful (Depending if you have time to concentrate, sadly to say 90% of us are not) - Every level (Even assistant) will know the whole audit process (From planning to time consuming/unnecessary admin work) - You have your own seat - Direct reporting manager turnover is high which means you have chance to meet good manager - Some partners and managers are approachable - Your life is easy if the management like you, all the credit will be taken by you even it is not. - Having upward evaluation system (But the P&C and usefulness is questionable, suggest to only give when you decided to leave the firm)

Cons

- Long working hours, no work-life balance - Expected to work during annual leave - Toxic environment - Hear says equal to factual, you might be not promoted and get "insult" until you leave the firm yourself because of the hear says - Salary not comparable to other mid-tier firm even after second salary revision in this (Other firms also revising with way better benefits) - Trying to retain and attract staff with the revised salary but no respect to current staff - Promise given was not kept after group merging - Partner (not all) is powerful to make more than 10 employee to resign in a year (Half of then were manager) - For Partner having trust issue and zero tolerance to risk as if we were to provide 100% accuracy FS to client (Not all partner but there is) - Request staff to go back to have face to face meeting during this pandemic even it can be done by virtual meeting - Traditional mindset: Formal attire is required from Monday to Thursday when other firms from big 4 to small firm are implementing smart casual look now

1.0
Oct 11, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Have many diverse opportunities to work on audits from different industries - Chance to watch sunrise as you go home from work - if you have intention to stay long in audit (eg. reach partner level) and the bosses favour you, you can have a smooth promotion track provided you dont screw up - Amazingly, the culture of the ground level stuff is generally okay considering how much everyone is suffering (depends on team)

Cons

- the diverse experience counts for nothing as many commercial firms don't even know this company, even though it is supposed to be the "biggest outside the Big 4" - the firm thinks they are appreciating the employees when all they do is take up all your time for work, and give you stingy little occasional perks to remind you how much they "appreciate" you. As they know they are unable to offer a salary competitive to the Big 4, they just that the emotional connection is enough to make you want to continue to slave for them while the company reaps the benefits - the bond and bonus structure is ridiculous; the bonus is considered higher as compared to the rest of the mid tier firms, but thinking about the annual package as a whole, they are essentially witholding a portion of a salary and giving you back the next year. Do note that if your bond ends in September and you decide to stay to stay for the bonus before leaving, you will be completing substantially another peak period as bonus is around February - Old school mentality. Many bosses don't trust you to work from home and only considering you to be working when they see you physically in office. Have heard of colleagues working in office every single day for months despite the government's laws of working from home by default; they will tell you to give excuses if there are any checks conducted to say that there is work that is essential to be performed in office. - Their motto is "Clients first". I think that says enough.

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