Grant Thornton reviews

Global brand is experiencing strong growth and progressive thought leadership, but US is determined to ruin it with new leadership guiding the firm toward eminent disaster. What do you get when most of the new enterprise leadership is from Andersen and most of the IT leadership is from CSC? It seems they picked up directly from the high point of these dinosaur companies (and epically failed) business philosophies. They have decided to outsource all of IT to a provider leveraging off-shore resources to the hilt while the business users are demanding more personal and custom solutions with self service capabilities. The next generation of talented accountants, consultants and auditors that are now maturing into managers will clash with the model and continue to advance shadow IT efforts or leave for more progressive cultures where they can advance their trade with state of the art tools, not a platform built to succeed in the 2000's.

In recruiting there is a lack of true leadership and no one that employees will actually learn anything from...at all. There is also no room for real advancement. No one within "leadership" has an advanced degree or a professional certification. There is also a total lack of stability and support is not given to employees in a timely manner or even at all. Over the last three years there have been three heads of recruiting. Two leaders ago they had someone who was intelligent and was very effective as head of recruiting but was moved to a different role within the firm. Her replacement was ineffective and as a result half the recruiting team resigned. He was eventually demoted and replaced with yet another ineffective and incompetent individual. Managers and leadership do not bring original ideas to the table or any true value. Rather they regurgitate company jargon like "bring your whole self to work" or "be here now" or "your 20 square feet." If you are comparing leadership at GT to that of the Big 4 it's not much of a comparison. Leadership at GT would probably not make it above the manager level at Deloitte, KPMG, PWC or EY.