A Good Place to Start Your Career - Managed Applications Services Associate RSM Employee Review

4.0
24 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Pros

RSM is a good place to start your career; they train you and you have a bit more structure before you are thrown into the deep end. I had a total of 6 weeks of training, two in Chicago and 4 in Denver. This is mainly because I'm in a highly technical role, which requires more knowledge of the system. Training has it's pros and cons, it's long hours, but you get to network and you get actual hands-on experience before you are in front of clients. You get more autonomy on this team, mainly because you are responsible for every aspect of the tickets you will get. It's a blessing and a curse. You will learn a lot, but you will be on your own for a lot too. If you have a good team, people will help you. But the higher up in the company you go, the less actual help you will receive. The majority of people in this company are kind and helpful, but the majority are also stressed and have very limited availability. It is a consulting firm after all.

Cons

Numbers are everything; it depends on your leadership and your team, but at the end of the day, if you don't have the billables, you are going to be in the next round of layoffs. Layoffs (in my short time at the company) come about every Fall and Spring, so keep your resume up to date and make good connections in the company.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

The people are nice and flexible WFH

Cons

The pay is below big 4

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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