Company: KPMG
Date: 2021-01-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A company that is hit or miss
Pros: Currently an audit associate.

- Good place to study if you wish to take the Chartered Account examination. Study leave is sufficient, bosses tend to not disturb you during study leave.

- Perks are good for medical, welfare fund, etc.

- Work in the audit department is more flexible, if you can manage your time well, you will find it comfortable with WFH arrangements.

- Not too much micro-managing (your experience may vary based on manager).

- If you are lucky, your assigned schedule will have good engagements, and your life will be very good. Your peak will be from Jan to May and the rest of the year will be smooth sailing.
Cons: - Poor concerns for employees. Partners at the highest level do not seem to understand the concerns of the lower-level employees. Big disconnect between upper management and lower management's concerns.

- High turnover. Once Covid-19 hit, there were huge cuts across different areas, which triggered a mass exodus in the second half of 2020. The people left behind were expected to take on massive increases in workload with no compromise.

- Lack of proper knowledge handover. There is little culture of preserving information, so you can take over an engagement that has been recurring for years, but processes were not documented properly, so you need to do everything from scratch again (plus client complaining about having to explain everything again)

- If you are unlucky, your assigned schedule will have bad engagements with bad clients and bosses (maybe even back to back), and your life will be a waking nightmare. You will feel like you are on peak period all year around.