Company: KPMG
Date: 2014-11-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Your career depends on your practice and most importantly the person you work for.
Pros: If you make the right connections, this can be a great place to advance your career. There is a strong emphasis on work-life balance, but only to an extent. The pay is okay, but raises can be pretty weak. Your best bet is to get in high and not expect huge jumps in pay every year.
Cons: When you get beyond Manager it gets a little difficult and more political in terms of promotions, etc. If you don't work for the "right' person you might get stuck on projects where you're not doing what you came there to do - sometimes for years. The person you work for needs to be able to sell the work you want to do - without that it can be a very difficult place to work. The one thing that bothers most employees is the vacation situation: you've given a good amount of vacation but it is "use it or lose it". You can carry over a certain amount of hours but that's it. Sometimes your  in a position where you can't take vacation and you end up loosing it. It's not fair. You earned that vacation if you can't take it there should be a way for you to at least get paid for it. Obviously you need to look at individual cases but if someone is billable for 12 months and wasn't able to take their vacation - they should be paid for it.