senior tax accountant

Guidant Financial

Guidant can be an good place or bad place to work depending on who you are and job you take. Guidant doesn't have the best hiring standards so you could see a boss destroy a department before they get fired. The advancement ceiling is pretty low or non-existent. If you are new to the job market, this could be a good job for a year or two before you need to start looking for a new one or transition to a new are a like marketing or sales. Upper Management is willing to help you with your side business but has tough time changing direction if it is not their idea. (Example: some employees took a weekend to come up to a solution to a problem they saw. They told a VP about it and they told them that "it didn't fit the company vision and they should realign with that vision". Not long after 2 of them were no longer with company) If you are hoping to own your business some day, Guidant is a great place for that. UM prioritizes prefers you work on starting a business than taking outside time to work on non-essential work. Crazy but true. I believe that the owners would prefer that all employees be business owners so everyone in the company could be business owners helping business owners.

TLDR: Guidant is a middle road company, that depending on the job you get/your ambition/your career, it can be good or bad. UM isn't that open to feedback or change. UM is willing to help you open your own business and lose you because of it.

This company talks a good game and appears to be larger than they are. Overall as a company, they may mean well, but at the department level (tax and accounting/bookkeeping) they lack focus, have extremely high turnover and department management is inexperienced. They do not offer clear direction or adequate support and training and are very quick to point fingers and blame people they do not like. Working there was extremely stressful due to inexperienced management and unhappy customers complaining all the time. If you are looking to build a career, this is not the place.

I have been with Guidant for over a year and I can honestly say, I've never been in a better work environment. With the support of my managers I've thrived and excelled in a career switch. It's not common that companies will let you shift roles especially with no experience, but that's what I did and couldn't be more grateful. Most managers at Guidant are willing to go out of their way to help anyone who shows initiative to better themselves and their careers.

Although the company has grown quickly over the last two years, we've maintained a really close team with a strong culture.  The hardest part of the job is figuring out how to meet our clients needs while we figure out how to adopt new technology and processes.  

The best part of my job by far is the people I work with and the opportunity to learn about aspects of the business outside of my role.

Things as confusing at Guidant. They stress happiness and a family work environment but then also preach about being more hard working, more business savy and less about happy fluff stuff.  HR team is awful frankly.  Not safe to speak with them, and do not understand why there are so many changes happening in that organization - but it does not make me feel like they are someone I can come to comfortably.  Management in general is nice but we are often overworked and certainly underpaid.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part was leaving that place. Horrible management. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management and training were below par. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They did not live by the culture which they depicted. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Overworked, with no support system. Overtime was mandatory.

Guidant is a great place to work. The people here are very supportive and they definitely work as a team. They have been working hard to make the employee and client experience better and are making great strides to reduce the mandatory overtime. 

Guidant was a great place at 1st. Everything is very fast paced and you are thrown in before you're ready. Make sure you read the fine print of everything and get EVERYTHING in writing. It has the potential to be a great place, leadership can be lacking and clear communication is not one of their strong suits. You get information on a need to know basis. 

In the beginning, everything was awesome- until it wasn’t. 
There is internal bias and prejudice and lots of passive aggression. The DEI committee may have good intentions, but the true culture of the company isn’t as diverse or inclusive. 

I owe a lot to Guidant. They gave me opportunities at a time I felt no other company would. Because of them, I was able to dive deeper into realizing my career goals and made me realize going to Grad School and investing in myself is worth while.

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