Grant Thornton reviews

It is very difficult for a fresher without prior experience to cope in this environment. Seniors and managers are unwilling to teach, even during non-peak periods, and expect you to complete the workpapers on your own. Some seniors refuse to clarify doubts because they believe you should already know everything. Often they would ask you to ask your peers for help instead. But they are on the same boat too. Only one in five seniors is nice—the rest are extremely rude. Long hours and overtime on weekends might be the norm in audit, but the lack of a supportive workplace makes the workload unbearable. The training videos and sessions are useless as they do not cover everything needed to complete the workpapers independently. Communication is also a challenge. Some seniors have poor English, making discussions difficult, and some work-related conversations happen in Mandarin, which excludes those who do not speak the language. Additionally, some seniors are biased when assigning work, leading to unfair distribution of tasks.

GT definitely low balled their employees in terms of pay during COVID when you compare how they managed the situation to how the Big 4, BDO and RSM did. This made a lot of people mad. Also, I don't know if this is exclusive to GT, but the woke politics has definitely started to show up in the firm culture and required "trainings". Last thing I will say, GT has no idea how to balance out the workload between associates. One associate could end up never working more than 70 hours all busy season and have a light summer on top of that, while others get pigeon holed into working on horrible clients and end up working multiple consecutive 100 hour weeks during busy season and working 70 plus throughout the summer.