Stressful and miserable place to work - Financial Analyst In the IFSC KPMG Employee Review

1.0
18 Apr 2018
Recommend
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Pros

-Very demanding so learnt a lot -Started off my career with a low benchmark for what a full-time job is like and gave me low expectations from a company. Henceforth this has made me really appreciate what working in a nice company is like and has made me more tolerant of negative aspects because this one was so brutal.

Cons

-Long and unappreciated working hours. Rarely thanked for your work and looked down on if you left within contractual working hours. -Had a 1:1 performance review with my manager twice during the year I was there and both were largely critical and negative experiences. -Everyone felt on edge and under extreme pressure all the time. -Horrible, negative, toxic atmosphere. -The team I was in was understaffed so about 6 of us had to do work for about twenty especially as people kept leaving. -Constantly undermined by manager and honestly called stupid -Incredibly low wages despite the arduous work put in which is demonstrative of how ungrateful and unappreciated we were. -Poor opportunities for career progression and the salary bonuses offered were pathetic. -No focused training provided on the job. You had to learn as you went and were treated like an idiot if you made mistakes/asked too many questions.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

Let go during RIF. When I started with the firm back in 2015, RIF's didn't occur much but now has become the normal once a year at minimum at KPMG. You must be on top of you game now (high performance culture) otherwise can be let go at any moments notice. Unfortunately if you do amazing on your engagement work, doesn’t mean anything to leadership and can still be let go, especially at manager level and requires you to put many additional hours per week doing extra curricular (Business Proposals, Certifications, etc.).

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