Company: KPMG
Date: 2016-05-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great place to start and get training. Brutal work environment gets old if you don't love it.
Pros: Great to work with very motivated and competent colleagues. 
Great place to start a career- good training and good brand for the resume
Every day is a challenge- always new assignments, new clients, new accounting rules, etc.
Lots of PTO for non-busy season and pretty good flexibility to work when and where you want during slower times.
Firm does a good job having lots of happy hours, celebrations, etc.
Cons: It takes a long time to get work done which contributes to the large workload.  Fill out a 30 page control documentation checklist.  Create a financial statement tieout with 20 types of tickmarks.  
Supervisors can be very anal retentive and leave tons of nit picky comments on your work which take you forever to address and clear.   When spending all this time on the aforementioned work, you don't feel like you are adding much value to anything.
If you don't love being an accountant, the non-value added tasks and nit pickiness of supervisors will eventually get to you and cause you to leave.
Many people do not like their job and love to whine and complain all the time.  This can be bad for group morale and your personal morale.
Firm can't seem to get staffing levels right- in my 4.5 yrs there, I always heard either, "we have too many people, we need people to leave or we may have to layoff" or "we are understaffed and engagements will have to make do with less people, sorry". Staffing isn't easy and there are a lot of moving pieces.  However, the firm was always happy to work people to death when understaffed but never was willing to put up with being slightly overstaffed.