Just don't - Anonymous employee Ryan Employee Review

This company is very cheap and micromanages the smallest of expenses. CEO approval is required for 99% of all expenses, even those that are pre-approved under internal policy. Example - A coworker has been at the company for about 5 years and just got his first laptop upgrade from a Windows XP running system to a 2012-3 model. While being so cheap, the CEO finds it necessary to bring up the fact that he has a multi-million dollar home and a Bentley. There are about 7,592 internal policies, some of which are completely in congruent with each other and some of which even the CEO doesn't comply with. Some policies cause employees to use work time to focus organizing files in some completely obscure way rather than performing client work. 60 hours of continuing education credits are required each year. You can get these credits from a pre-established pool of classes which are unrelated to your practice or useless and outdated. You could get some external learning hours but the CEO has to approve it (unless it is one of one or two pre-approved trainings that are unrelated to half of the companies practice). The executive team is in way over their heads and too arrogant to know it. The people in charge of the company know it well, but know nothing else. They are stuck and it shows in many ways. Last couple of years finance, IT, HR and other teams have been a revolving door. The CFO and head of HR have both left recently. myRyan, the flexible work environment, works for some, but mostly just ensures you are available to work 24/7. Many manager level and above expect this. The Ryan bonus structure works well for some, but also causes some incentives for misconduct (e.g. a former partner committed fraud against the government to pad his pocket and move up in positions - he acted on his own accord, but those around him apparently had no idea what he was doing...) Other partners game the system legitimately by attaching their names to every known account without someone already own it. This way they can get a part of the marketing for each account (Ryan Bonus is split 10% to marketing and 18% to management allocations - some partners perform no work other than a 10 minute review and yet they get more than 10% while staff have to split a 3% pool). The 401k match is tied to the company's EBITDA and is capped at $2500 regardless of your contributions and max EBITDA levels. Actual distributions are not comparable with the industry standards. Base pay is not comparable with industry standards. Pay is standard across all practices despite advanced skill or education requirements for some areas. Pay is less than industry standards unless you are on the right team. Ryan sees itself as a competitor to the Big4, but lacks in just about every regard.