Good at first - IT Advisory - Associate RSM Employee Review

4.0
3 Feb 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opportunity for growth and development. Great coworkers. Travel to fun places. It's fun working with smaller clients and getting to sit with the C-level folks within the companies. I enjoy seeing our clients businesses grow and my professional development growing with them.

Cons

Salary is OK. Per the Robert Half salary guide, RSM is considered a large firm (2015 revenue of $4B+) but they only pay midsize firm salaries. Once associates make senior, they leave because RSM under pays and overworks seniors. You're shielded from a lot of the BS your first year. After that, it's game on. Management expectations aren't set up to allow employees to be successful. No incentive for management to change since there's an endless stream of new grads every year. 32 people I know in the company have quit since I started 1.5 years ago. I was hoping to have opportunity to branch out into other areas of the practice and try different things, but despite my asking, it hasn't happened. Very disappointed about that.

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Pros

Supportive RM team and growing visibility and strategic partnerships with business leaders

Cons

Some high stress situations; minimal recognition

2.0
24 Jun 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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