OK Place to Build Your Career - Senior Manager KPMG Employee Review

3.0
28 Aug 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary; good benefits; smart people; good training; good clients

Cons

The "Great Place to Build Your Career" works if you have just gotten out of school and want to "pay dues" so you can move on to something else. If you have an established career outside public accounting and come in as a manager, it might be a bit different. The culture doesn't lend itself to new ideas and innovative business practices. Anyone coming in with ideas about how to more efficiently manage projects and engagements (i.e. automation, resource utilization, benchmarking) may not be seen as trying to help the bottom line. There also seems to be a lot of subjectivity on performance reviews especially during hard times. It gives the appearance of trying to "paper the file" when reviews are used to justify layoffs.

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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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