Pros
The commute was short for me and a majority of clients are situated relatively close by
Cons
It is hard to write just how bad things got at MacIntyre Hudson. Covid-19 was the straw that broke the camels back for me, however even before that I was unhappy in my job, over worked and tremendously underpaid and totally uncared for by management. The Partners in their wisdom decided to furlough a significant portion of staff for a considerable period, why?! We still had the same amount of work to get done, but now by a vastly reduced workforce. Consequently I faced more stress than usual trying to get through a completely unrealistic workload. I pride myself on doing a good job however the workload inevitably meant that the quality of the audits being churned out in a hurry and without sufficient resource deteriorated significantly in my opinion. Not just my own but across the office. The Partners would then question every little thing on your timesheet and you constantly felt on eggshells when preparing your timesheets. You felt like you couldn’t be honest when writing them through fear of the reaction... a horrible situation to be in. The Partners put a bit of a show on about caring for their staff (A token 2 inch flower pot bearing the firms logo and some seeds was a highlight, there was no mention of the cancelled pay rise that was cancelled without notice) but the reality is you are overworked, underpaid, unhappy and with no career progression because they can’t afford to promote the mid level staff to management because they are so dramatically understaffed. In this buoyant job market you can easily find a better paid job with vastly superior work/life balance and progression prospects in my opinion...that is what I have done.