Lack of work-life balance, comparatively low pay (sometimes even for the partners), long hours, office politics, are often listed by former Big 4 employees as "reasons why any talented CPAs or accountants shouldn't work for the Big 4". To most former and current Big 4 employees, the most annoying negative of working for a Big 4 accounting firm is the lack of a decent office room for the professionals. In smaller accounting firms, it's not unusual for even senior associates to have their own office rooms. But for the Big 4, even the senior managers may just have only cubicles...and for certain partners, a closet size fish tank as an office room....
So if you are dreaming to be promoted to that dream management position in a Big 4 firm so you can command a corner office, dream on...and be ready for one day to be asked to bring your own folding chairs to go to work... or be told to go use the public toilets in the neighborhood, since now some Big 4s are thinking that taking away everybody's permanent desks and make everyone drift around the office with their computer equipment and belongings like a vagabond are so chic... The day when the Big 4 get rids of the rest rooms may be nearer than you think...
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