Company: KPMG
Date: 2017-08-05
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Oracle Database Administrator (K-Tech St. Louis)
Pros: The firm actually promotes great benefits and supports many good causes.
Cons: 70 hour weeks; zero comp time offered.

No work / life balance.  On-call is horrendous when it is your week, which is somewhat acceptable in this field, but never a single hour  of comp-time offered by mgmt, which was unacceptable.  It ruined my personal and family life, so I quit before it killed me.  The bonus was only ~1.5 percent, which also did not make up for the excessive work-load.

My particular leader who was in Montvale, New Jersey...she would often yell at me over phone loud enough that my co-workers could hear her over the handset; I should have turned her into HR, but regret I never did.  One example was I worked an issue all night long going to bed 4am.  I emailed team I was going to sleep in and work from home when I woke up, then immediately was chastised for not driving downtown and being "onsite and at my desk" by 9am.  This was the final straw.

$5 per day to park in Downtown St. Louis.  Recruiter and middle mgmt offered me to work-from-home 1-2 days per week prior to accepting job, but once hired, they reneged and I was only able to do so 1 day per week, even though I had those details in writing.

Bed-checks were also daily ritual by my leader.  One Friday, after working 60-hour week, my co-worker said he'd had enough for one week and was going home.  I said "me too".  It was not 10 minutes later that we both received an email asking our where-abouts, as M/S LYNC showed our laptops as being "disconnected".  This was followed by text.  This is not acceptable in any setting, definitely not a professional I.T. setting....and reminded be of back when we were in Kindergarten.

I observed that KPMG is a decent company, and K-Tech certainly has some good teams to work for in the St. Louis office, but I would run as fast as you can from the Oracle DBA / SQL Server team, unless you are homeless and need a job.