MHA Reviews

If you enjoy unmanageable workloads and ridiculous deadlines coupled with poor remuneration. If you thrive off stress, this is the work place for you. If you like working with managers who cover their own backsides and will throw you under the bus at any given opportunity. If you believe you’ll thrive and your career will progress at a firm which runs on nepotism and favouritism. If you feel working at a firm with a chronic staff retention record is a positive attribute. If you think your mental health is robust and could do with a good testing at its resilience. If you’re happy to work for a firm who failed to plan for their mass recruitment and has insufficient desks and seating for its staff. In addition, if you’re happy to be forced into the office to sit in a meeting room and work without being provided proper ergonomic equipment. If you relish being gaslit and working with the insincere. If these are the attributes you look for in an employer, get applying for their vacancies today.

It is hard to write just how bad things got at MacIntyre Hudson. Covid-19 was the straw that broke the camels back for me, however even before that I was unhappy in my job, over worked and tremendously underpaid and totally uncared for by management. The Partners in their wisdom decided to furlough a significant portion of staff for a considerable period, why?! We still had the same amount of work to get done, but now by a vastly reduced workforce. Consequently I faced more stress than usual trying to get through a completely unrealistic workload. I pride myself on doing a good job however the workload inevitably meant that the quality of the audits being churned out in a hurry and without sufficient resource deteriorated significantly in my opinion. Not just my own but across the office. The Partners would then question every little thing on your timesheet and you constantly felt on eggshells when preparing your timesheets. You felt like you couldn’t be honest when writing them through fear of the reaction... a horrible situation to be in. The Partners put a bit of a show on about caring for their staff (A token 2 inch flower pot bearing the firms logo and some seeds was a highlight, there was no mention of the cancelled pay rise that was cancelled without notice) but the reality is you are overworked, underpaid, unhappy and with no career progression because they can’t afford to promote the mid level staff to management because they are so dramatically understaffed. In this buoyant job market you can easily find a better paid job with vastly superior work/life balance and progression prospects in my opinion...that is what I have done.