Company: KPMG
Date: 2021-01-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Working environment
Pros: KPMG as part of their work culture conducts thorough and in depth analysis during audit process for its clients. 
You almost know everybody in your audit department group. Everyone is friendly there and as such there is no negativity with regards to working with your peers.
Cons: Working late nights is the norm here. If you are not working beyond 8pm that means you are not working seriously.
One of the major default in their working is that audit staff has IT admin passwords which they use to change time and date to allow audit documentation beyond deadlines. I haven't encountered any such instance but anyone can heavily misuse the password to bring down the entire KPMG network with it. Everyone in the audit from associate/ article trainee to the partner knows about sharing of IT admin password and they don't care

There is NO clean desk policy. They have a policy but just in papers. You can see audit and tax files lying all around office. If one wants to intentionally seek out any information regarding public companies, it is quite easy, just grab any file in the office lying around and 4 out of 10 times you may come across information about a public company. And there are no cameras to see who is looking for the information. If you are worried about being caught by other co-workers then just come to office on a Sunday of late night after 12am.
Apart from potential fraud opportunities, not following the clean desk policy makes the KPMG office seem like a govt. office and just reduces the quality of work environment. You just sometimes don't feel like working there.