KPMG reviews

The "Great Place to Build Your Career" works if you have just gotten out of school and want to "pay dues" so you can move on to something else. If you have an established career outside public accounting and come in as a manager, it might be a bit different. The culture doesn't lend itself to new ideas and innovative business practices. Anyone coming in with ideas about how to more efficiently manage projects and engagements (i.e. automation, resource utilization, benchmarking) may not be seen as trying to help the bottom line. There also seems to be a lot of subjectivity on performance reviews especially during hard times. It gives the appearance of trying to "paper the file" when reviews are used to justify layoffs.

We typically worked a lot of hours, sometimes were thrown into a new industry and new clients and expected to know stuff right away.