Crowe LLP reviews

Management has changed through the years to emulate Big 4 without the same level of resources, ability, or clout. The recent transitions such as to unlimited PTO to intimidate staff into not taking their deserved time off and to a vague bonus structure that started out with “you don’t have to go above and beyond since it replaces normal bonuses” to “bonuses for going above and beyond” feeds into this culture of avoiding compensating people fairly in order for the Company to hit their $1bn arbitrary target. Taking advantage of COVID, management has also decided to hold everyone to 40hr a week charge goals when before, it was understood that humans aren’t robots and can’t possibly be fully chargeable for 8hrs daily without blowing our tiny engagement budgets. Again, it’s a shift to copy Big 4 without Big 4 engagement fees.

The technology division (product engineers and management) is a cluster of miscommunication, lack of direction, lack of resources, and poor planning; among other things. The overwhelming theme is a lack of experience, from the low-level developers to the project-leads and 'architects'. - Hires: Zero consideration given to project needs when taking on new hires. The only consistent hires are out-of-college junior devs; which is usually fine, but paired with an inability to hold onto more experienced developers creates a revolving door of inexperience. - Project Management/Leadership: Project architects (and managers) have an incredible lack of knowledge on how things are suppose to be done from a basic level of software development. The most in-depth 'architecture plan' I've seen produced for any of the several projects I've been a part of have amounted to draft-level Visio drawings. Oddly, any attempt to go against the grain and think things through is met with a shrug. - Advancement: There are a few '10x' developers that have been with Crowe during my time here; never have they been properly recognized, appreciated, nor compensated. Most have left. Promotions do not include a raise; your annual review is the same 'evaluation' and small salary adjustment year over year.