Company: KPMG
Date: 2015-09-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Management Consultant Graduate
Pros: Good brand name, big clients, good office. If on the bench, very chilled out. If on a good project, can be very flexible.
Cons: Lock-step promotion for minimum 5 years, usually 6 to reach manager (£55k) - 3 years a graduate and 3 years an assistant manager.
Pay is poor and below market rate. Switched on people leave as can make approx £20k p.a more doing the same job elsewhere. Very inflexible - not allowed to specialise in an area until manager. Treated like a communal resource - same across big 4 I believe.
Often work savage hours, no reward whatsoever in terms of early promotion or performance related bonus.
CIMA - compulsory 3 years of CIMA. If you quit grad scheme early, forced to repay in full (Thousands £££). Most feel it is a mechanism to stop grads jumping ship during year 2.