Good place to start a career, but expect long work hours on regular basis. - Senior Associate, IT Advisory KPMG Employee Review

4.0
Aug 7, 2008
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Pros

Good place to start a career. Firm has excellent benefits. Most of senior management are easily accessible and act promptly on individual concerns.

Cons

Long hours will be required on regular basis which tends to affect work/life balance. There is a heavy management oversight if employees do not charge 50 hours per week of billable time. There were recent lay-offs which were not formally communicated which tends to create a lot of speculation among the employees. All work papers are still in hard copy format, however, the firm is slowly moving towards electronic format. This transition will be completed next year.

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Cons

Let go during RIF. When I started with the firm back in 2015, RIF's didn't occur much but now has become the normal once a year at minimum at KPMG. You must be on top of you game now (high performance culture) otherwise can be let go at any moments notice. Unfortunately if you do amazing on your engagement work, doesn’t mean anything to leadership and can still be let go, especially at manager level and requires you to put many additional hours per week doing extra curricular (Business Proposals, Certifications, etc.).

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