Company: KPMG
Date: 2012-10-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Hard work, low pay  at KPMG Amsterdam
Pros: Probably the best reason to work at KPMG is the team, although not all teams are as fun to work in, in general consulting is better than audit. Also more social events are organised at departments that still make a profit (i.e. not Audit or Management Consulting)
Cons: The pay, in comparison with the hours, is ridiculous. KPMG Amsterdam wants to hire strategy-consultant-fit people for their consulting branch but offer a salary for starters that is laughable at most.
Recently, the firm was shaked up by a reorganization in which a lot of the formerly positive benefits were removed such as overtime hour compensation, going home 1.5 hour early for Christmas, and mobility budgets were decreased - this makes it less attractive to work here even compared to other Big 4 audit firms which also do not pay too well