Pluspunten
Aight so here's the deal. PowerPlan is great for someone who wants to dive into accounting and tax consulting using an inhouse software solution. You'll be querying and inserting away in Oracle SQL to your hearts content. You'll have plenty of coworkers with knowledge to share but you have to be the one showing the initiative to learn and grow. You'll get some flexibility to lead your project and you'll quickly be thrown into interacting with clients. If you like hands-on client consulting work that relies on both industry functional knowledge and SQL-based software implementation, a Professional Service (consulting) job here is great choice for you. The company struggled in the last couple of years with a whole new set of C-suites and many, many mid-level employees with huge amounts of experience and knowledge leaving. However, I do see signs of us bouncing back -- especially because during COVID, we were able to ensure nobody got pays reduced or let go of anybody due to financial reasons. In fact, we got additional bump in each paycheck to pay for internet working from home. That's pretty amazing and I think that directly attributes to a good management from the top and everybody in the field making sure they're doing their part. The new management, while still figuring out directions, seems to care about the people aspect of their employees i.e. we're just all humans and not just "assets". Before COVID, travel was frequent and home base office in Atlanta did have plenty of snacks and drinks. I do miss the rotating "Snack of the Month". Random strangers of internet, please note that I still gave the overall rating 4/5 because I just like this type of job -- the travel, the SQL, the Excel spreadsheets, the laissez-faire management. But note that I'm biased because of all that. And I'm just an optimistic person. So you've read all the way here, you'll want to read the Cons section carefully.
Minpunten
As much as I praised in my above comment, I have a lot to say here. And I really say these in the best interest that PowerPlan actually address and fix the issues as of 2021. First of all, PowerPlan pay is fairly weak. At the end of the day, no job is about "family" or none of that corporate bs (and I'm sorry if THAT is your priority and not your real family). It's about the money. Part of the reason why we had a high turnover couple years ago is definitely and undeniably tied to the weak salary. I make 10-20% less than my peers in other consulting roles. It's a bit quizzical how we can charge a high premium to clients to have them raise their eyebrows but we end getting so little piece of that pie. The overall compensation package as a whole is decent though -- good amount of PTOs (if you can use it, lol), employee stock purchase program, 401k match, standard health, dental, and vision, etc. Second, some parts of the company is seriously understaffed. It's a systemic issue where we keep shooting ourselves in the foot by selling more project and not having enough people to staff -- and by that I mean not enough people with enough experience to lead the projects to success. Understand that the roles here are VERY niche and takes years to master but it shouldn't take a miracle to hire few key roles to backfill in much needed areas. I assume and will continue to assume that number one reason we can't fill these roles are about weak pay. Third, the people. Once you step into an interview round and you ask as an interviewee "what's your favorite thing about working at PowerPlan?" the interviewer will 9/10 say "the people". Ok --- so it's true that we have some great, talented people here but it's almost a farce at this point how much they drill the "people" factor. It's annoying and it ends up sounding like some corporate facade. In contrast, some people in the company are VERY cliquey and it actually hinders team synergies. Unless you are trying 110% to get to know people as a new employee, you will have hard time fitting in. Caveat is that a Diversity and Inclusion team has recently formed to fluff some life into the monochromatic office here but it'll take some time. Fourth, the blurred line between Professional Services (implementation team that faces clients) and every other roles within the company. If you are seen as half-capable of knowing your module, you'll be tasked with every internal initiatives in addition to project work. And all your past projects' clients will email YOU for help instead of going to helpdesk. It's the classic scenario of "congrats on your promotion, here's more work". It's absolutely exhausting to carry all that workload and it's absolutely why PowerPlan will continue to lose people if not addressed.