Ok place to work - Tax Associate CBIZ Employee Review

3.0
22 Jul 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The staff there is mostly friendly and very helpful. There is work life balance here since the clients are mostly manufacturing companies, there is never really much of a rush on anything. It is pretty easy to complete your cpa here, get VERY BASIC training and go somewhere better. They have good corporate clients and many consolidated returns. Personally, its an ok place if your trying to be in a laid back environment as there is no backstabing or jealous staff that is competting for the "good clients" most of the people here are in there 30s and not really interested in becoming a big tax person. If your looking for a calm/ stress free environment this is it. Free metro cards

Cons

The managers will not teach you. The will give you barely enough info to get the tax return done. I know a staff that was working there for 5 years and resently started to get partnership returns. This place can be dangerous because, you stay here 2 or 3 years and dont leave because its easy , since the managers dont give corrections back, then you become like a data entry person, and you cant really leave because you dont know someone with 2 or 3 years should know. You will get stuck. Alot of times, they wont give you the return so you don't know if u made any errors. Its very slow growth there. I know this guy who worked there for 10 years and only became manager because he threatened to leave. Also, alot of times the managers are to lazy to train anyone. There are a few managers who will take the time out to show you how to do stuff, its really your luck there. I would say that if your young its better to go else where, just because you have the ability to work abit harder and other places may promote quicker. If your in your mid 30s and you know the basics than this is a very good place to work. its easy with a excellent work life balance and managers get offices.

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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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