Company: KPMG
Date: 2014-09-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

KPMG Singapore - Office Poitics
Pros: Fair compensation. Good soft skills training programmes have been organised with external Learning & Development service providers.
Cons: I've not encountered a worse case of office politics elsewhere. Partners can be heard shouting at each other and slamming their office doors over disagreements.

Healthy competition amongst employees is good for any company but at KPMG Singapore, it's definitely not healthy. It has gone to the extent that people start writing emails to "protect" themselves right after verbally agreeing to some "team"-work. As a result, time is wasted with such back and forth emails.

The leadership encouraged competition also means junior staff often go over their immediate supervisor's heads.