Company: KPMG
Date: 2014-02-19
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Real-life Master's Program
Pros: Very fast paced. Sink or swim attitude. Great exposure to many areas and industries of accounting. The partners and managers that I worked with always had their door open for discussions.  The people are GREAT! Lots of learning opportunities and responsibilities. Work independently and as a team.  Good medical benefits.   Great place to begin.
Cons: No work-life balance - work is life.  There are numerous instances where what you communicate to partners/managers (e.g. you need additional staff/seniors, would like to work in a different industry, etc.) would not be heard, acknowledged, or considered which has directly lead to employees leaving the firm. Poor rating structure which allows for easier rating managers to inflate associates/senior associates ratings.  What they preach - High Performance Culture - is NOT what they reward.