Considering going to Moss Adams from another mid-size firm. Has anyone heard anything good/bad about Moss Adams?

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I have been here at Moss since August (in the Risk Assurance and Compliance advisory group) and I have nothing by good things to say.

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Would you mind chatting with me on DM? Trying to learn more about RA.

I’m in the Dallas office which is part of the central region and love it. Which area are you looking at? I’ve heard different things depending on the area.

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I’ve heard Moss Adams is very remote as well, is this true? What are the average minimum busy season hours?

I heard they cut everyone's pay during COVID and furloughed a ton of people, then laid off a bunch of people, based solely on the pandemic, before they had any revenue decrease. Seems like a really poor move and I don't think it's a place I would want to work based on that alone.

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It probably has significant variations from region to region, but I left Moss due to high pressure on charge hours and unrealistic expectations for realization. My staff were constantly gobbling up budgets to meet their charge hour goals and I was constantly eating hours like crazy to get engagements out the door. I don’t think that much has changed- I have a friend who was forced to meet weekly about her charge hours for 3 months because for the first time in 9 years at Moss, she was behind on her charge hours in January because she moved and sold her house- when she set her goals, she did not know she would be doing that and didn’t plan for it. Scheduling calls you the next day if you don’t finalize your time. They were in a race to the bottom for fees. And at least in my office, my pay was below market, although they have tried to catch up comp in the past year. Certain industries/offices were definitely treated as higher profile and if you weren’t in those, you were treated less well. Also, they laid off the receptionist in my former office after 10 years, and the partners refused to give her a reference due to internal policy. I would get it if she was handling client work, but she was a receptionist 5 years away from retirement. I learned a lot, but I really feel like they just didn’t care about their people at all.

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I heard good things for tax

My career advisor was talking about preparing to go back to the office 2-3 days a week…big nope for me

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