Company: KPMG
Date: 2018-12-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great company with terrible politics
Pros: OK pay
Beautiful offices
Progressive company policies (as long as it doesn’t involve others)
Some great employees and colleagues 
Some smart people
Cons: Very political environment - nepotism runs rampant. Some employees in the lower ranks don’t receive recognition they deserve in favor of those management favors for personal reasons. 

Money is king - Values are for show. No adherence to policy for upper management, sexual harassment not taken seriously. KPMG tries to distinguish itself by advertising a positive work culture, but there are pockets where this is openly dismissed. 

“Respecting the individual” is only face value: the day a new hire joined our division, upper management openly derided her accomplishments in front of others for no reason other than having a “bad day at the office”

Pockets of the cutthroat environment KPMG tried to shed still exist, and are more prevalent as you climb ranks: I’ve seen peers in the Advisory division destroy others’ careers to gain an inch

OK pay - I’ve moved on to another company that pays more for the same work