Company: KPMG
Date: 2020-07-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Technology function in the UK has been destroyed in two years
Pros: Pays on time
Travel between offices paid
Cons: Since the last change in Technology leadership we have been subjected to:

Gross sexism, including:
- "Asking" managers to interview specific candidates when no tickets are open, only to only open a ticket if the interview was successful and the candidate identifies as female. I am not convinced this is even legal.
- A Director once said "Want to know why you won't make Director? You don't have a [anatomy word]."
- "Cake sales" and "baking competitions" for women with pink posters in the office.
- One woman that was amazing at her job was asked to go to an awards ceremony in a cocktail dress.

Other madness:
- Actual AIDS jokes from new Directors on Powerpoint slides eg "Did you know that I came from Doncaster, AIDS capital of the UK?"
- An obsession with outsourcing work to India in an attempt to scam clients with shoddy work. Since the UK Partners own a share of KGS India there are personal tax incentives to do this. If you are worried about the quality (for instance, some of the India staff cannot do the highly technical work required of clients or even spell in some cases) it is subtly hinted that you are a racist.
- Bizarre internal rah-rahing over simple things such as turning on Microsoft Teams like a normal company. Entire teams of "Digital Transformation" managers who advertise features of Office 365 that Microsoft have built and take credit for them when they turn them on.
- "Digital Ninja" programme - basically an excuse to get people who can use a computer to train over the hill Partners who cannot. Great for your career though! You get a T-Shirt and some stickers. Extremely demeaning - might as well call them the "geek squad" or the "boffin crew".
- Proudly announcing during the gender pay gap results that non-BAME, non-female-identifying staff are paid on average 20% less at the Senior Manager level. Great success! Any 20% swing in any direction during a pay gap report should raise alarm bells as it means there is massive over and under paying going on to fill and maintain quotas.
- HR laughing out loud during a 50 person conference call when asked "What if this process makes someone sick?" in reference to sick leave being denied to people put on a PIP. Callous.
- Attempts to move all software development to "low code" platforms like Appian. After throwing scores of graduates at it and spending millions and millions of pounds, its still utter dump, barely works and everyone hates it. Yet they continue. Shows an absolute deep disregard for technology.
- Some Partners are personally responsible for setting fire to 10s of millions of pounds of technology mistakes and are still there causing damage.