Company: KPMG
Date: 2014-03-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Not so great if you're not an accountant
Pros: The time off is pretty great, especially at management level. Good benefits.
Cons: If you are not on the track to make partner then it's a pretty miserable experience. There is a very old-school way of thinking at firms like these. Working on the operations side me and my team were treated more like we were in the service industry rather than valued equal employees.

The operations team is typically very small yet supports the entire office or in some cases, supports other offices as well. The expectation is that because a team on the audit side is working late that everyone on the operations side should stay late to support them. This might make sense if it occurred only a couple times a year but when supporting an entire office, the need to stay late was pretty much every single night and weekend. They would always say, "well we are staying late, why can't you?" but that was asked daily by multiple teams. There simply were not enough people to give 24-hour support, not to mention there was 0% chance of making partner or even getting any sort of acknowledgement from a 'win.'