Grant Thornton reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(6,951 total reviews)
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Seth Siegel

66% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Grant Thornton has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,951 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Grant Thornton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 21, 2019

Please Do Not Work Here

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Pros

Excellent Benefits and casual dress code

Cons

Minorities do not get promoted

2.0
Oct 18, 2019
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Pros

Recognizable brand that might open doors to bigger firms (think, Big4, obviously not Big3 by any means)

Cons

The company is trying to pivot and do more advisory and technologically advanced work (every day you hear "AI," "machine learning") but has no capabilities to start selling and doing these projects. A abundance of tech-illiterate consultants that can only produce .ppt presentations. Annual lay-offs at the end of the financial year. In 2019, close to 300 people were let go, one of the tech/innovation functions was eliminated at all.

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While Grant Thornton disagrees with your assessment, we are truly disappointed to hear about your experience. Grant Thornton continues to combine technology solutions with business knowledge – delivering value to clients. In fact, we posted record revenues of $1.9 billion for our last fiscal, boasting several innovation-related achievements during the year. Most notably, we launched a cloud-based system that increases collaboration among our teams and our clients. And we rolled-out new client tools for accounting and analytics – while also automating tax-credit processes for clients engaged in research and development efforts. In addition, we launched a learning program to prepare our tax professionals for a future where they will prescribe high-tech solutions. Finally, we continue to strategically acquire independent firms that increase our capabilities and offerings.
2.0
Jul 29, 2019
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Pros

- Young atmosphere where friends can be made. - Travel for work - Fast-paced environment to learn many companies

Cons

- Environment of high school with gossip, drama, and popularity that will ultimately determine your pay raise - Non-merit based ranking system (I.e. based upon friendships as opposed to difficulty of work) - Unappreciative managers and partners (As evidenced by top-down orders for partners and managers to show more appreciation because of extremely high turn-over) - So many employees are unhappy working at GT that people are leaving faster than they can be replaced. - Lowest compensation in the auditing industry - Comparable hours to the big 4 and experience is not as good. - Middle market audit firm means some people have year-round busy season

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