Company: KPMG
Date: 2008-10-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Looks good on a resume, but unsatisfying.
Pros: Having Big 4 work experience on your resume. Learning about how a Big  4 firm operates. Gaining the experience of working with people all over the world on one project. Immediately being assigned to very difficult research projects.
Cons: Not being able to gain an understanding of the entire audit and tax process. Too much bureaucracy and inefficiencies. Having too many managers to answer to. Some days I would have four managers want me to work on their projects and other days I would be out of work. Also, the performance evaluation process was poor. I think this goes back to having too many managers. Sure, everyone has a performance manager, but I was never placed on one assignment with this manager. How is someone supposed to evaluate you, if they've never worked with you? Lastly, I was interested in gaining the NY experience requirements towards the CPA designation because I had already passed the exam, but was not once assigned the audit work that's required.