Company: KPMG
Date: 2016-10-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Not perfect, but best place I've ever worked
Pros: Great people, collegial atmosphere most of the time, decent benefits, generous time off, strong values and good leadership in most parts of the firm.
Cons: There are plenty of partners and leaders who do NOT live up to KPMG's values, which are heavily and consistently talked about  and promoted throughout the firm. Certain individuals are allowed to continue to mistreat and/or abuse more junior staff members simply because they're "rainmakers" and the firm wouldn't want to cut them loose. Also, the gender discrimination issue is still very much a thing. This year's promotions "process" demonstrated that very clearly. It's pretty frustrating to see female colleagues working their tails off and taking on extra workload, only to not get promoted, because a few men have been "in line" longer. That's not supposed to be what promotions are based on (according to every HR presentation I've ever seen on this topic), yet that's how it went down this year. Very frustrating.