Mass exodus in Accounting, a trend lasting for years and no end in sight
Pros
Benefits (leave, holidays, floating holidays, 401k match (after 1 year of service), stock bonuses (3-yr vesting), employee stock purchase plan (though inconsistent stock price), good medical dental and vision Development programs IF you have time for them (online training, events, guest speakers, etc) Some nice people
Cons
Toxic environment No work/life balance Unequal pay for equal work Retaliation So many re-orgs and re-alignments, very few actually know what they or their teams are doing Too many overlapping meetings, no time to DO WORK Favoritism; protected teammates given less work and more visibility opportunities while the rest grind Departments took regular surveys of employees' preference to return to the office or not and then ignored the overwhelming desire to stay remote and forced people back into the office anyway Mandated return to office with vaccination or you’re fired Poor cooperation between departments; projects go off track and then sponsors and PMs lean on back office to pick up the slack and work long hours and weekends to rescue poorly run projects; then those people go on to collect the prized trips to Maui Annual awards mostly go to VPs, directors and managers, NOT the low level employees - it’s all by nomination and a popularity contest; and small teams who keep getting disproportionately recognized get entitled and indignant the ONE YEAR they don’t have someone winning So much turnover it's hard to learn when everyone keeps leaving and those left behind are lost
