Company: KPMG
Date: 2017-04-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A mixed bag
Pros: There is some flexibility with working, you can work from home when needed

Study Leave is quite good

Some autonomy over work and workload

Good with sick leave

Meet some nice and intelligent people

Get to do some travelling but to be honest you won't see much of the environment as you work long hours.

You can generally leave on time.

Big 4 firm looks good on your CV
Cons: The proverbial definitely travels downward no matter whether or not it is your fault or something outside of anybody's control 

Appraisal process is poor. Sometimes you find that you get negative feedback when someone is trying to cover their own imperfections. I don't really feel that you can be too "honest" in your "honest conversations" no matter how diplomatically you put things.

No training whatsoever. Some people are good with showing you how to do things, others expect you to know without any guidance even if you tell them you have never done the task before. Sometimes you can ask questions and get a response which is both short and in no way answers your queries. So you try to reword it and get the same but it will still be your fault for not asking enough.

Difficult to get enough work if you are a new team member.

Sometimes get work which should be admin - packing and labelling boxes for example.

You don't get enough work relevant to your studies so learning isn't consolidated.

No matter what, it's YOUR FAULT.