Could be better - Advisory Associate KPMG Employee Review

3.0
5 Jan 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Since KPMG is one of the Big 4s, the obvious pros are reputation and experience on your resume. KPMG does emphasize training and offer a lot of good methodologies and tools for reference and guide.

Cons

Be ready for a very political environment. You have to suck up to move up. You have to know the right people and sing the same song. Management do not communicate big news in a clear and timely manner. Workpapers are very manual, administrative, and time-consuming (plus they are not-chargeable). If you are looking for work/life balance, then do not work here. Certain managers are just plain ***holes.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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