KPMG reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(40,052 total reviews)
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Tim Walsh

62% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

KPMG has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 40,052 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KPMG employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Sep 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on CV. Overall as one of the Big 4 it helps open doors in industries. You can make good networks.

Cons

Choosing to work in KPMG is a downside. Everything is a big fat lie. The whole work like policy is a joke. Internal politicking is rife. Managers are ignorant buffoons who do not even know their heads from their behinds. Partners are worse. you have to fight for projects. Managers form their own dog groups and its hard to get out of a group and get projects. Internal transfers, assignments and rotations are hard to get by. All the stuff that is said in the HR presentations is just gimmick. The salary package is the worst. The lowest paid of all the big 4 and they try to compensate by showing the great added benefits. Hog wash

2.0
Sep 5, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

25 days of vacation. nice office. nothing much to say. The annual salary raise is well below inflation rate and, not too mention, the rental raise in New York City.

Cons

KPMG has too much politics. There is lack of learning opportunity. Salary is not competitive. The work is long hour. The morale is low except for the new-comers. The staff people are taken seriously about quality of work but totally lack of recognition. The management does not have any respect. they have very poor time management. If they have problem, they will blame it down to the staff. If they have credit, they take them all by themselves. Staff people feel like working hard for nothing because all credits has been taken by management level. People who gets promotion are people who play game with the management, but not the people who do the hard work. Ethics is bad in office. therefore KPMG has such a high employee turnover rate. The annual salary raise is well below inflation rate and, not too mention, the rental raise in New York City.

3.0
Jun 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Career growth: The most valuable thing was obtaining a lot experience delivering advisory services for large, prestigious companies. This enabled me to learn a lot and grow as a professional, and I have been a very competitive applicant for good jobs at good companies now that I've left the firm. So if career growth is important to you, I felt my time at KPMG supported that. 2. Culture: Seemed pretty good overall - the staff and management level were very supportive of each other in my experience. I didn't see a lot of "cut throat" behavior that I've heard rumors about at other Big 4. Partners weren't always the best, but were never really mean or rude. 3. Work life balance: We worked fairly hard and long hours, I would say normal week was 55-65 hours with some weeks surging passed 80 - it's consulting afterall and we had to deliver for our clients. But it never got to the point where I felt totally run down or exploited, like some of the nightmare stories you might hear from investment banking, for example. Leadership was pretty supportive about you taking PTO as long as it was scheduled in advance. When on PTO, I got calls every now and then, but people tried their best not to disturb you, which I appreciated.

Cons

As part of my severance package, I agreed not to say anything bad about the firm. Thus, I am not going to provide specific negatives and will let my ratings speak for themselves.

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