Just Say No - Advisory Director KPMG Employee Review

1.0
6 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

One of the Big 4 accounting firms, i.e., name recognition

Cons

Since joining KPMG - Advisory in 2017, there have been no less than two reorganizations and two RIFs (reductions in force, or layoffs). The voluntary turnover here is also extremely high, so there is no sense of team because it's a revolving door. Most importantly, senior management has no idea what they're doing; constantly undertaking reorgs and RIFs to address profitability but nothing seems to work. The funny thing is that it's the Partners and Principals of the practice that really drive revenue and profits (they are the rainmakers) , and when they fall short (a constant problem), the "solution" is layoff staff. Staff is not the problem, the problem is at the top. Also, bad ethics violations and scandals in the news recently; who would want to associate themselves with that?

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Pros

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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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