Company: KPMG
Date: 2020-08-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

I don't see how this could be worth it to anyone
Pros: Even though I switched industries entirely, people know the KPMG name and this still lends me credibility to this day when it comes up in conversation with sales prospects at my new job. If you want to be a controller or better in another company, this job could help you. As you will see in the "cons" section, I think you REALLY need to want this to put up with the company culture. 

Because this job taught me how much I dislike the prospect of accounting as a career, there are no other benefits I can think of. I will so though that I am thankful every single day that I had this job because I know to never put myself in this type of horrible work situation again.
Cons: The worst part about being at KPMG is that not only are you working 80-100 hours a week for months at a time, but the koolaid drinking, brainwashed employees will also shame you if you say you want to leave before senior. They legitimately believe that doing so is career suicide. DO NOT believe this garbage. You can leave and you will be fine.  

The pay is not good either. You make just over $60K as a first year associate but work double the hours of a normal person in an industry job. Managers also tell you to eat hours which is highly frowned upon by C-suite. What am I supposed to do? Stand up to my manager and get a bad review because of it?

If you are someone who is active and watches over their health, be ready to be ordered to skip your runs for weeks at a time (am I in grade school again) and interrogated over why you are not eating crappy ribs and burgers with fries every night "because it's busy season." Insecure colleagues who derive their sense of self worth from damaging their health for their career will brag about how little they sleep , laugh at the fact they haven't exercised in three months and have gained 20 pounds. That is sick and sad. I left before Senior Associate, and am grateful because that is from what I could see the most overworked and thankless position in the company. It is common to see people with addictions to alcohol and adderall who are trying to deal with the sad life they have signed up for and rationalize daily. 

My last comment will be to know what you are signing up for. I did so willingly. Nobody had a gun to my head telling me I needed to sign the employment contract, so I had to learn the juice wasn't worth the squeeze on my own. Please think individually about what you want from life. You can make good money without this place. 

I was not a good employee (mainly because I slept four-five hours a night for months) and I am thankful they put up with this long enough for me to save up a good nest egg. Otherwise this was one of the worst periods of my life. Never again.