KPMG - Dead end career - no work/life balance - Tax Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

2.0
5 Sept 2008
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Pros

25 days of vacation. nice office. nothing much to say. The annual salary raise is well below inflation rate and, not too mention, the rental raise in New York City.

Cons

KPMG has too much politics. There is lack of learning opportunity. Salary is not competitive. The work is long hour. The morale is low except for the new-comers. The staff people are taken seriously about quality of work but totally lack of recognition. The management does not have any respect. they have very poor time management. If they have problem, they will blame it down to the staff. If they have credit, they take them all by themselves. Staff people feel like working hard for nothing because all credits has been taken by management level. People who gets promotion are people who play game with the management, but not the people who do the hard work. Ethics is bad in office. therefore KPMG has such a high employee turnover rate. The annual salary raise is well below inflation rate and, not too mention, the rental raise in New York City.

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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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