Company: KPMG
Date: 2015-11-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Audit driven and short term mindset
Pros: Due to a well know global employer brand, KPMG Russia is able to attract a great deal of talent. The young and promising talent is a delight to work with and their work ethics and commitment are no were close to the traditional Generation challenges seen in the West. KPMG globally are sitting on great talent and IP.
Cons: Young talent are treated in a bad manner and very much old Russian / Soviet management style is applied. Unfortunately there is no real culture to transfer knowledge, coach and educate, but rather to cash in on labour. As the firm is operating under a license, the firm in Russia is suffering from having a local mentality as a franchise, rather than a true multinational. The equity partner model fosters a democratic leadership, which unfortunately is having a negative effect seen in by managers reluctance to make decisions, as well as a tremendously high level of office politics and bureaucracy and risk management procedures.