Audit Associate- Phoenix, AZ - Anonymous employee CBIZ Employee Review

1.0
15 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You are given a lot of great learning opportunities at CBIZ and are given a lot of responsibility early on in your career -- usually right out of college. I enjoyed working with hard-working, smart individuals in a team driven environment that really helped me learn and develop as a professional. Getting experience working on many low risk and high risk audit areas (in many different industries) early in your career is great. CBIZ also offers great benefits and a good amount of vacation to start, however it feels like there is shame around actually taking the vacation, as you are expected to work a lot of billable hours every year.

Cons

There is very little training as most everything is learned on the job and the professionals higher up are very busy and for the most part, not approachable/willing to actually take the time to teach you. The culture is very demanding and very demeaning. Much of the time people talk to you like you are unintelligent and unworthy of the position you have within the company. You are expected to work a lot of billable hours every year and your bonus is linked to how many hours you work; however, managements hours are linked to keeping your billable hours down so you are constantly trying to work more for yourself but work less for management (which is almost impossible to actually do without making someone mad). You can go elsewhere and make more money-- the wages at other public accounting firms are higher for the same position.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

Friendly environment and growth-oriented - office dependent. You will learn a lot and be exposed to all industries, which is great. If you are new, they will treat you with respect and try to help you learn; they understand it's a lot.

Cons

Like most companies, they want you to meet your billable hours, which is good. However, the negative here is if the company typically performs worse in the summer or the work starts to slow down for any reason, or you have too many staff competing for work, your billables begin to be negatively affected, which is faulted towards the employees ' performance. You need 150 billable hours a month, regardless of vacation and PTO. Nonbillable hours will not save you from the end goal, which is again, billable hours. Meaning, if you have a meeting, a federal holiday, or an office closure which is non-billable, you will have to make that time up. It's the hard law in this firm.

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