My little review - Audit Assistant RSM Employee Review

3.0
3 Dec 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The good thing about RSM is that they offer a good salary, and the opportunity to work from home is always avalaible. If you're studying for the ACA qualification you ll have plenty of time to revise for them especially when sitting your professional level exams. There are many training workshop aim to help you improve in a diverse range of skills, and they have their own personalised portal where you can go and take on courses such as excel etc...

Cons

The culture is too toxic. All the seniors if things are not going the right way they end up putting all the blame on the traine to save their feedback. I don't know about the other offices, but the office that I worked was split in groups. Where each group would try and slaughter the other. Another thing is that they will report you to seniors and hr for anything. For example if you don't wear a tie, surprise surprise you are getting reported. The feedback for each of the client that you work on is full of bias. If you have built a good enough personal relationship with the AM then even if your work is not of the high standard you will still get a good feedback, and if you haven't build a strong relationship with them you ll get a feedback. I can go on but this should be enough!!

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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
Recommend
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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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