Company: KPMG
Date: 2015-02-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Interesting challenging work, little work-life balance
Pros: - Opportunity to work on interesting, big scale projects
- Work with the brightest specialists in their fields
- Opportunity to lead early in your career. In audit you can start supervising teams from your 2nd year.
- Usually more paid time off than what's offered by the industry + paid study leaves (2 weeks per year for those taking ACCA exams) + paid/unpaid time off for overtime worked (depends on the country though)
- Great exit opportunities - many companies respect and look for Big4 experience
- Hard work is recognized and rewarded
- Many opportunities for development outside of accounting - can ask for delivering client/inter-company trainings, presentations, etc.
Cons: - Busy season can be stressful - long hours, weekends, last minute are expected
- Hard (or more likely - almost impossible) take a vacation during busy season - no skiing trips in February :( 
- Travel can be up to 70-80% during the busy season
- High turnover among assistants/supervisors leading to projects being often understaffed