Company: KPMG
Date: 2009-02-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great place to start a career, but it is not for everybody long-term.
Pros: Great place to start a career and learn a lot in a short period of time.  The exposure you gain to various companies' processes, cultures, and senior leadership is priceless for a young professional.
Cons: The culture of a large partnership is slow to change and can be difficult to deal with sometimes.  The firm still battles with "kingdom-building" in some areas, where partners are absolute rulers; regardless of what the official firm initiative at the time is.  Sometimes it feels like decisions are made in a vacuum without any real knowledge about what is going on on the ground, and because we are a private company, the majority of employees have no real idea about how the firm is perfoming financially.