Company: KPMG
Date: 2012-06-02
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Exploited
Pros: Social events - you get a couple of drinks for free
£3 lunch allowance - but a bad egg sandwich costs £2.50, a hot meal costs £4.50
ACA qualification
Can manage flexible hour working
Nothing much else.. hard to reach the 20 word minimum
Cons: Can do endless travel in hotels for work (depends on department)
No tangible appreciation from management
Peanut pay
Endless 'busy season' with long hours from 9am to midnight (usually lasts from January to June, a bit of break from the busy season in July and August but September till November is again very busy.. so 9 months of busy season a year.)
Not even a leaving card on my last day - and I have not been sacked but chose to leave!
Everything partner centred - staff sacrifice their pay for partners (e.g. £1k bonus for first time ACAs scrapped in order to save £500k in total - this amount may equal a couple of junior partners' salary) and work (everyone has to obey them etc.)
Everything is about the declining business, the business comes first (obviously) over staff learning/experience/development. Promised a year secondment but not kept the promise saying there was no business giving a day notice.
Another bit of news - pension terms got less favouable now for new joiners and the existing pension terms were not that great..