Pros
+Good work-life balance +Good exposure to alternative investment industry experts +Work with many CPA-licensed professionals (co-workers/managers and clients) +$3K one-time bonus available for obtaining CPA or CFA professional titles +Company-provided (catered) lunches 4 days a week +On-site gym +$2,000 of tax-free company-match HSA money available to save for medical expenses (based on a family plan), with ability to invest in mutual funds +Work From Home is available and easy and practical to do +Advancement/Promotion is more truly based on merit than anywhere else I've ever worked. No artificial barriers or time limitations for advancement--if you demonstrate you are performing at the higher level and able to handle more responsibility while maintaining quality work and client satisfaction, you will be advanced to that level
Kontras
-Health Insurance plans are high deductible (but very cheap on premiums, and pretty generous company-match HSA money available) -401k company match maxes out at 4.5% of salary (and requires employee contribution of 6% of salary to get that), and the company match only starts after a year with the company -No separate Sick Leave time. If you take a day out sick, it comes out of your accrued vacation time. -Often difficult to arrange to use accrued time off (small teams, with little cross-coverage of clients by multiple employees, so it's difficult to be out of office for any extended period) -Not much visible demographic diversity among co-workers (not a single Black employee out of 100+ employees in the SLC office, and 30% or fewer women employees)--although I am certain this has much more to do with the fact that the targeted applicant/hiring pool is accountants in Utah than it being a result of any race- or gender-based prejudice in recruiting efforts and decisions; and co-workers are great people to work with