Cool work, disturbing culture - Senior Strategy Associate KPMG Employee Review

2.0
7 Feb 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-great exposure to a variety of work; cool projects -decent year over year raises

Cons

-culture of leadership enjoys watching you suffer and work insane hours -abrasive and inappropriate to females in general and culture that thinks that is humorous -not possible for me to feel good ethically/morally with how they treat people and conduct work or "work-related" activities -because of bureaucracy there are limits (you may not experience in other consulting firms) such as being tagged to a start class, not seeing projects through but being used to plug in here and there, little room to differentiate yourself and your compensation (bonuses are minimal anyway)

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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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