I interviewed there and I personally would never work there. They deal almost exclusively with low income tax credit clients, but that isn't the reason I wouldn't work there. During my interview the manager I interviewed with told me that you can see when people break during busy season … who says that? It just sounded like a horrible place to work and that comment gave me the impression that they didn't really support their staffs development, but the more than anything just hire with the intention that they are going to break you. The SF office is like a shoe factory, very large and modular, no windows in a lot of the office.
Not to mention, they give you 45 minutes to write and essay, answer 5 full-blown accounting text book type questions, and do an excel spreadsheet formatting task (which is easy). I hadn't started studying for the CPA exam when I went in for the interview and I found the accounting questions a little difficult, but I cannot really remember exactly what they were now.
Look at glassdoor. Don't be discouraged from trying it out if you have an interview … try it out, but know that there are better firms out there.
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