Company: KPMG
Date: 2018-07-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A good firm that has lost its way
Pros: -  Really good people seem to work here
-  There are plenty of professional development opportunities
-  Does very interesting work for important government clients
-  Has a benefits portal that allows you to get discounts with some businesses
-  Good Christmas part (BUT Cons also refers)
Cons: -  Pay is terrible, particularly when compared to the local market.
-  Mostly a bodyshop that posts people to Defence to earn revenue while the firm doesn't really adding any value at all.
-  Has stopped caring about its people.  
-  Once upon a time it put on a great Christmas Party for its people for free.  Now it makes people pay for it.  Sends a pretty clear message that the firm no longer cares about its people.
-  Trying to grow too aggressively and all the worrying telltale signs are clear: good people are leaving, quality standards are decreasing or being compromised, can't do the small things like put on a free Christmas party for its people, not enough office space for everyone etc.
-  Opportunities for progression are limited and progression is still very much based on time in rank rather than a genuine meritocracy.   In its efforts to grow aggressively, lateral hires are absorbing a lot of the opportunities available.
-  Very high-cost, which makes it expensive, which prices it out of work.
-  Deficient or absent leadership at many levels which doesn't really add any value.  No vision.  No strategy.
-  Really painful mandatory training about risk, security etc.
-  Selling work to clients is an obsession and promotions are based on ability to sell work; not leadership, not skills, not quality of work etc.
-  There is mass unhappiness and dissatisfaction and the partnership is either oblivious or comfortable with this.
-  Really ungenerous and miserly bonuses.
-  Poor systems.