Great experience, little work/life balance - Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

3.0
Dec 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of great things about KPMG: Many different opportunities, fast-paced and challenging work environment (in a positive way), good people (generally) to work with. If you like to be challenged and you like accounting, KPMG is definitely the place to be...the work environment is definitely not stale or boring.

Cons

Work/life balance often doesn't exist; the advantage is the flexibility, but you still have to work the hours. I think this is true at all of the accounting firms, so no real surprise here. The technology available isn't that great and definitely behind the times, so a lot of time is spent dealing with "paper" (priting, reprinting, copying, etc.)...shouldn't have to spend that much time with paper in this electronic age.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

It might sound cliche but the Pro for me is the people that I work with. I'm lucky enough to be staffed in a team with great leadership. Managers are actually willing to coach junior members and be a real mentor. I very much appreciate their efforts.

Cons

Long hours and office politics. This is pretty basic and obvious for any public accounting firms. Every time a quarter end, year end, or a special filing is going out, you can expect 10-14 hour days. It might be fine in your early career but it gets really tiring after a few years.

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