Company: KPMG
Date: 2016-01-15
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst place to start a career- audit
Pros: You make good friends going through the fire with your peers. Big 4 looks good on a resume.
Cons: Management has lost control. They are out of touch with reality. Audit profession has changed for the worse, no use of critical thinking is required anymore. The work you'll be performing on a day-to-day basis is regulatory compliance (mostly controls) and you gain no knowledge of accounting or your clients business. Staff/seniors take orders from mgrs who have no idea how the business works but just tell you what they do on their other clients because they themselves developed no critical thinking skills. Further, audit implemented interim "milestones" which fall 100% on the seniors/staff and result in year round busy season hours. Pay isn't good, you develop no skills, and you have no time personal life. I'd suggest starting a career anywhere else including corporate accounting, other Big 4 practices, financial analyst positions etc. I'm sure other Big 4 have similar issues but they are magnified at KPMG.