Company: KPMG
Date: 2017-05-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Typical Big 4
Pros: Options are available to work part time or take sabbaticals, though it seems like you need an excuse to do so

Generous time off (although not enough to compensate for all the extra hours worked during busy season)

Jumpstart Fridays - leave at 3 on Fridays in the Summer
Cons: During busy season, you work very long hours with no overtime. 

First and second years are expected to do inventory counts on weekends and holidays and are not allowed any time off at a later date to compensate.

As an associate, you never know when you're going to go home (your senior or manager tells you when to leave), which makes it hard to make appointments or evening plans. Once you become a senior you're able to decide when the team leaves but at that point you have so much responsibility that you need to stay later to get everything done.

High performance culture, which means that you're expected to know everything and you look dumb if you make a mistake. It also means leaving before 5:30 is highly frowned upon and even packing up then feels like a sin.