Smith & Williamson Employee Reviews about "great people"
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Pros
"Good working culture, work life balance" (in 16 reviews)
"Great people / 'family-like' environment" (in 7 reviews)
Cons
"Some areas are outdated and old fashioned" (in 16 reviews)
"No concept of a work life balance" (in 5 reviews)
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Reviews about "great people"
Return to all Reviews"Great place to work"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Smith & Williamson full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
The people are great, loads of fun to be had
Cons
None that I can think of
- Helpful (1)
"Overall good but old school"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Smith & Williamson full-time for less than a year
Pros
- Great diversity of work - Great people / 'family-like' environment - Promotions available - Relaxed environment
Cons
- Always behind. The firm is very old-fashioned (from the 'style' of the office, to the management style). Even by being in central London, you feel like working in a very close minded organisation. - Very old-fashioned mentality for a London firm, it feels like working in an 80's style accounting firm. - Technology is pretty much non-existent, although the firm is starting to work on it. - Not flexible at all. Working from home is pretty much non-existent and seems to be only available to certain people. The process is very unclear around it, some staff members work from home regularly, when for some others it seems to always be declined. I have also been hired on the basis that WFH was not regular yet, but the firm wanted to change mentalities, hence I was open to work from home when I wanted to try and push it forward. After 6 months, I was almost always told off when I mentioned I would work from home, and later be told that I could not work from home anymore, unless an official request had been made to my managers and HR ... this is not what I have been told during the interview process. - Poor management and utilisation of staff members. Although I keep hearing that the team I used to work in, is understaffed (hence why I have been hired), I find myself being low on workload even by constantly requesting other team members for work. This is due again, to the firm being very old-school and refusing team members to share clients to help each other, meaning that some staff members will be flooded by their workload, whilst other who could help, are bored. - Benefits are not good and very oriented towards people having children. - Culture and professionalism needs to change. It is common practice for people in the office to openly joke in a nasty way about other staff members and be borderline discriminatory. This goes from tax trainees to Director levels ... not very impressing.
Continue reading "Modern Apprentice"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
I have been working at Smith & Williamson full-time for less than a year
Pros
Great working environment with great people.
Cons
Nothing as of yet
- Helpful (1)
Pros
the people are great, good work/ life balance
Cons
old fashioned in processes/ attitude to technology
- Helpful (1)
"Great place to work"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Smith & Williamson
Pros
Great people and atmosphere, good diversity of work available, good extra training, extra opportunities in long run (going abroad on secondment, going on secondment in industry).
Cons
Only 70h of over hours paid each year (of which you can take 35 as TOIL), due to current industry trend.
- Helpful (1)
"Good overall experience"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Smith & Williamson full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great people to work with especially when joining the grad scheme, almost feels like being back at university. Plenty of social aspects and great range of work.
Cons
The work life balance is not good if you are a hard worker as you will always be busy. Those less diligent get away with not doing as much.
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"Old fashioned"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Smith & Williamson full-time for more than a year
Pros
There are some great people that work at the firm and lots of training.
Cons
Very old fashioned systems, no online document management system for the non investment team (i.e. audit and tax), so endless paper trails
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