1. Internal IT is horrendous.
2. Recently KPMG has tried to market itself as a tech company, but it can't get the basic right.
3. Direction from leadership is non-existent.
4. KPMG always waits for other companies to try something and then follows a few months later. KPMG's Covid response was slow as they waited to see what everyone else was doing.
5. Everything is about risk. If any decision comes with risk it won't happen.
6. Security/SecOps teams are stuck in the 1990's which makes innovation very difficult. Unfortunately, management find it difficult to give constructive feedback or hire new people to perform the required role.
7. Culture of empire building between departments.
8. Feedback doesn't exist. You will never find out what area you can improve in. If someone has bad behaviours they will receive average in performance reviews because no one wants to deal with the extra paperwork.
9. KPMG can't keep up with the tech industry. Everything at KPMG comes with an unfortunately long process. This means simple things like salary increases take over a year to approve. By this time they're outdated.
10. Leadership is happy to listen to improvements but really do anything to implement them.
11. You could easily perform a below average job at KPMG and no one would do anything about it. Job for life.