RSM reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,347 total reviews)
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EJ Nedder

67% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

RSM has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,347 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
2.0
Oct 27, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty decent salary and good opportunity for promotion. Ability to transfer to other offices in different areas. Large well-known firm. Looks good on your resume.

Cons

Office is in a terrible location, parking is a major headache, and the actual layout of the office is very undesirable for my taste, as you have basically zero privacy. Too much administrative burden placed on professional staff. Work life balance not as advertised. You are told in the interviewing process that busy season is 55 hours/week and that you will have flexibility to work remotely as needed so long as you get your work done. However, I would estimate busy season hours to be closer to 80 than 55 and while technically you can work from home, no one at the associate and senior associate levels do and if you do decide to work from home it is definitely looked down upon. Several of the reviewers are very petty and seem to go out of their way to pick your work apart over very small and nittpicky things that have no effect on the accuracy of the return. Things like spacing in the cover letters, a comma or dash that needs to be added to there liking, a change sentence structure(though the message remains the same). A lot of these items are very subjective and whimsical in nature and dependent on the mood of the reviewer, but you often get very patronizing feedback for not anticipating or recognizing every tiny little minutia according to their taste. The result is a ton of wasted time and major inefficiency.

3.0
Aug 18, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The name gets recognition, which means plenty of job offers come pouring in once you've passed your exam and put two or three years into the firm. The continuing education programs are good, and the depth of expertise in the firm means you have resources available to learn and expand as a professional.

Cons

They talk a big game about balance and all that, but at the end of the day, anyone under a senior manager or director role is nothing more than a billable hours machine. You are 100% judged for promotion and raises based on what you bill and what percentage you collect, even if you (as a staff person) have zero influence on those amounts. Your billable hours are also published in a weekly email visible to all your coworkers. Some offices might manage this better, but in mine (a recently merged firm) it immediately turned a very relaxed, friendly workplace into an extremely cut-throat environment where project poaching and coworkers undermining each other to management became a daily occurrence. You also get paid nothing for your time commitment. They pay "competitively" which is HR code for "just enough that you leaving for another public firm won't be due to compensation." This isn't a McGladrey problem. This is a public accounting problem. The firms are all run by people who have only done public accounting and think that working people 80 hours a week for $45,000 a year is ok. The entire system is broken, but accountants are, as a rule, too gutless to do anything about it.

5.0
Jun 8, 2015

My McGladrey experience

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Lots of opportunities for advancement -Company culture and people are terrific -Management financially rewards hard work -Good training, both for new hires and long time employees -Management/Partner group truly wants you to succeed -Excellent learning opportunities -Lots of PTO offered -Good benefits including great Company HSA match

Cons

-Long hours both during busy season and outside of busy season -Small bonuses, but large raises -401k match is mediocre, in line with industry, but nothing special -Partner track does seem very long -Work-life balance is not what is advertised

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