Company: KPMG
Date: 2015-04-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Director
Pros: Annual compensation for Director+
Quality colleagues
Increase your professional capacity for stress and multitasking
Learn to handle "big" personalities
Learn to operate in "warlord" model of fiefdoms
"Survivors club" bond with alumni
Access to the top executives at the top firms in the world
Refine your personal presence, and oral and written presentation skills
Become a seasoned consultant, able to address a multitude of business challenges
Cons: 50% of Partners are great, 30% are OK, 10% are generally negative or toxic, 10% are sociopaths and abusers
Little mobility outside of your fiefdom
Incentives drive Partners and Directors away from partnering and collaboration
Partner and Director incentives are not linked to generating quantifiable value for clients
Isolation from colleagues across firm
Unrelenting travel, M-Th
Isolation from your loved ones
Loss of your authentic self as you conform to "NY-based accounting firm culture"
Hourly compensation: Per hour worked or devoted to thinking about the firm and clients, your remuneration will be poor
"Always on" culture where management values responsiveness at all hours, all days
Productivity and perceptions occasionally take priority over generating value for clients