A toxic culture that demands perfection - Director KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Breadth of skills - there is typically a team for everything a client could need. Above market salary.

Cons

Depth of skills - each team has a very limited number of capable individuals. Highly toxic culture: always on, drop everything and fight whatever fire is burning today. Mistakes will not be tolerated: made a mistake? That will dictate your performance rating, and people will remember it for a long time.

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5.0
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Good starting pay Good exposure to career development

Cons

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2.0
Jun 17, 2026
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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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