KPMG reviews

Work life balance, high stress environment, high expectations, limited coaching/teaching (must teach yourself if you want to perform well/survive), Management does not act on criticisms (does not become more efficient), lack of open communication below upper MGMT and lower associates, Upper management does not work late with the team (if team works until 2 am the Manager leaves around 10 and Partner will usually leave at 6, so they are not aware of all the work being performed), some employees have been pressured to eat hours to make budget look better. "Great Learning Experience" means you are going to work A LOT and it will be a mess, so don't have any plans for the next month or so. Feel uncomfortable to give negative feedback or constructive criticism to upper management for fear of retaliation (being moved to worse client or sent to another city to work more hours/additional busy seasons). Teams can be understaffed resulting in way more hours than other teams for no reason other than upper management doesn't want to "hurt the budget", so these employees have to work until 2 am in busy season (80-90 hour weeks) while other teams work until 10 (60-70 hour weeks).

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.