Company: KPMG
Date: 2020-11-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Terrible place
Pros: The onboarding experience was great, despite the COVID-19 situation.
Cons: I arrived on a project where it was clear it was going to fail. I pointed out that there was no way we were going to make the deadline from day 1. The worst programming practices had been used for the project, and my co-workers barely seemed to have sufficient knowledge regarding the programming languages and frameworks used. The team lead often got offline at 3 PM and never gave clear instructions for the team. The project manager and other consultants left right before the project was about to blow up. The moment I finished the last bug in the backlog, I got a call from HR to say I was fired for bad performance.

I started applying for jobs, I was interviewed by companies that had worked on that specific project, they told me the environment was very political and they were aware the KPMG software engineering team was making bad decisions all the time. I was told I was the victim of a political fallout. I asked HR for an audit on the project which never happened. HR doesn't care whether you're actually performing good or bad. If someone wants you out you're gone, even if they're the ones at fault.

It couldn't get worse than this, KPMG tried to withhold all my salary until I gave them back the laptop and iPhone. But I was on vacation so I couldn't. I would have to wait almost 2-3 months for my salary to arrive. When I pointed out the article in the Luxembourg labor law, they suddenly complied.

After that they were still refusing to issue me my certificates necessary to apply for unemployment benefits.

After doing interviews for EY, Deloitte and PwC, KPMG is clearly behind its competitors in Luxembourg.

Don't lie about benefits, staff is not eligible for health insurance first 2 years of employment, and they're not eligible for pension plans the first 8 years of employment, yet it's marketed as if you're getting it from day 1. You'll also get a worn out iPhone as a 'benefit' as well as a company laptop you cannot use for personal use, which was also listed as a benefit.

Don't move to Luxembourg for KPMG if you value your career. I looked for work after being fired for 1 month and a half without success. I moved back abroad to a country where I don't speak the native language and found another job from my first interview.