Company: KPMG
Date: 2015-12-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Weak Advisory business
Pros: - Decent corporate values, and plenty of staff do "live" by them.  
- Reward is adequate, and workload is what you'd expect from a major consultancy.  
- Generally good dynamics and behaviours within project teams
Cons: - Total lack of direction and strategy within Advisory.  Directionless and constantly reorganising to no effect.  
- The weakest Advisory business in the Big 4.  Don't bother if you're a serious consultant - clearly going in the wrong direction
- Too many sub-divisions within the business, and partners chasing pet projects of limited business value
- Good graded staff can often be exhausted through workload.  Moderate quality senior managers and directors in Advisory.
- Basically, the Advisory business doesn't know what it wants to be.  So chases everything and ends up very fragmented.
- Not a good place to be a white male right now - lots of "diversity" efforts to promote women / minorities.  Good principle, but net result is negative for many men's careers.
- Some real bad eggs in the partner group.  Probably the same proportion as anywhere else, but you'll learn who they are quickly...