Wilson Stevens Reviews

The partners treat this firm like one big boys' club. They don't follow the rules they set for their staff, they arrive late, don't follow the dress code and take holiday in December or January. They are such fascists when it comes to budgets and timesheets. Every accountancy firm will have their own set method of preparing accounts, which will take some getting used to at first but isn't anything insummountable, but the partners change the way they want accounts prepared every 5 seconds, meaning they will always have an excuse to moan at you. They don't charge clients enough, meaning you have budgets which are almost impossible to meet and are totally inflexible, and the bookkeepers are so incompetent that you'll waste half of the budget fixing mistakes caused by their stupidity. Sniffing and swearing are rife in this office, making it almost impossible to concentrate, and somehow it will be your fault when the IT system breaks. It gets very political between the accounts department and the personal tax department, as the personal tax department argue they shouldn't have to do any work.

Absolutely awful culture, very much a boys club. Seniors and even some partners would speak horribly about people behind their back and if you weren’t in their inner circle you had virtually no support and it’s clear that prospects of moving up are low without that. Budgets for accounts work are impossible to keep to and clients are severely undercharged, meaning partners and managers will always have a go at you for when you inevitably go over budget. This also encouraged a culture of being unable to ask for help or ask questions as whoever helped you would add their time to the client, forcing you to go even further over budget - causing upper management to have a go at you. Not a good environment for training or developing you skills.