Great Career Stepping Stone - Tax Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

3.0
Jul 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You will gain valuable and highly marketable experience working for large and prestigious clients. You will gain an immediate network of intelligent and motivated young professionals who will one day be in positions of authority. You will have training and support of a top-tier worldwide organization. You will work for a company that treats you like a professional and affords great flexibility. Paid time off is excellent. Compensation is decent.

Cons

The merely decent compensation seems lackluster when you consider the extravagant number of hours that you will work--work/life balance is unsurprisingly a weakness. Almost all recruiting is carried out on college campuses, which has two potential downsides: first, the people recruited tend to be of the fraternity/sorority persuasion, which may not be your cup of tea; second, if you were not recruited in college, it will probably be very difficult to get a job here.

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4.0
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Pros

It might sound cliche but the Pro for me is the people that I work with. I'm lucky enough to be staffed in a team with great leadership. Managers are actually willing to coach junior members and be a real mentor. I very much appreciate their efforts.

Cons

Long hours and office politics. This is pretty basic and obvious for any public accounting firms. Every time a quarter end, year end, or a special filing is going out, you can expect 10-14 hour days. It might be fine in your early career but it gets really tiring after a few years.

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