Long Hours, not for me - Associate KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Nov 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice People who seem to care about you and want you to do well. However, you never get to see these people because you are never in the office. Lots of good perks, good benefits.

Cons

Partners force you to work long hours for their own benefit. For the amount of hours worked, the pay is not good. There is no such thing as work life balance. Its all work all the time. The training that has been given awards was rather weak and did not help make the transition into a full time job easy at all. All of the copmanies resources go to the Audit practice leaving little for anyone else.

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2.0
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Pros

You get to work with an awesome, highly resilient group of local peers in the advisory practice. The KPMG brand still holds value, but the internal team dynamics have become incredibly fractured.

Cons

We have outsourced 80%+ of our Risk Advisory work, leaving onshore seniors with massive gaps in their experience. As a manager, I am stuck doing senior-level work because I typically have only one or zero local seniors or associates on my teams. The best leaders have already resigned because this model prevents actual management and mentoring. Also, it might take you 30+ years to become partner in Risk Advisory, if at all.

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