Company: KPMG
Date: 2021-01-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great people, horrible internal processes
Pros: - Great team members and overall company culture 
- Good benefits and PTO 
- Large variety of clients to be staffed on
- Very clear promotion path (assoc > sr. assoc > mgr > etc.)
Cons: - Poor work/life balance
- Expected to "check-in" and still work if needed while on PTO 
- Encouraged to use your voice but very rarely actually listened to 
- Since all of your work hours go to client work, you're expected to participate in a number of "internal initiatives" in your evening hours, and if you don't, they'll hold it against your promotion 
- Internal processes are horrific (HR, Accounting Center, tech support, etc.) - if you want to actually use the benefits it's a nightmare to deal with, everything requires mass amounts of pre and post-approval from all ranks of leadership, it's all just very poorly run for such a big company and causes a ton of headaches and extra work
- They make it sound easy to internally switch groups but it's actually near impossible to make horizontal moves. If you are able to, it takes almost half a year to get anywhere and you have to figure it all out yourself