Poor experience for Directors and MD levels - Executive Director KPMG Employee Review

3.0
Apr 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Provide solid remuneration, average big consulting bonuses, and good transitions on-board, off-boarding.

Cons

Difficult to achieve targets, poor internal processes and controls, terrible systems, in-fighting galore between groups and even amongst people at close levels over credit, and almost no collaboration. Unscrupulous behaviors are a challenge relative other accountancies who do “Big 4” consulting (i.e., firing of account leaders for unethical behavior). Some of the worst performers are there and continue to be there due to fear of lawsuits, corporate cronyism and absolute fear of actively dealing with the worst employees who occupy protected classes.

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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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