Vantaggi
Interesting people, challenging work. the office parties can be fun if everyone participates. Free food and drinks, snacks like chips and pretzels. Our office manager was a wonderful person.
Svantaggi
This is just my personal experience. I worked for this company for right at two years and was overall very satisfied in the beginning. However, management feeds you lies about how if you get promoted the work-life balance will be better. You will breathe, sleep, eat, and drink Dixon Hughes Goodman and you will never have any free time. "But that's public accounting everywhere" they chime. Wrong. The turnover in this firm is outrageous and their benefits for employees are sub par. Yeah, a month of PTO looks great until you can't take any. The firm has a different culture at every single office. Management is disorganized and chaotic, and the office often has the feel that there is absolutely no one in control. Management will gossip about employees consistently. I had a senior manager constantly go into the office of another senior manager and gossip about the employees or gripe about them. I heard them once when I was in a partner's office. That is extremely disrespectful to the people that are working so hard for you. This firm has an up or out mentality, and if they get a whiff that you don't meet their standards, you will be out the door and on your butt in no time. This firm is not the Big 4, or even top 10, but they sure act like it. Training is also horrendous. They are more concerned with the quantity of hours than the quality of hours for CPE. I have since left for another firm and I love where I am.