Company: KPMG
Date: 2014-03-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great company but only if you work for a partner who will support you
Pros: KPMG (Management Consulting) is a blue chip consulting firm, great offices in Canary Wharf and gives you a great network of people to continue your career.  Clients are often very good and high profile.  Salary/benefits package is good (but not the best)
Cons: Can be very political.  
Promotion criteria are not clear and often seems to be a case of self-promotion and networking rather than actual achievements.  You can get lucky - some people are promoted simply due to the fact that they're in the right place at the right time to the frustration of others.  Review process is an amateurish shouting match with managers promoting their favourites on a whiteboard regardless of measurable performance.  You only get on if people senior to you are prepared to fight for you (and few are!)
Consultants can sit on the bench for weeks/months!  KPMG isn't fussed until review time.  Key to understand that it's your responsibility to find work within KPMG.