Great starting point but difficult to move within service lines - Senior Associate - Advisory KPMG Employee Review

4.0
Sep 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues - ambitious, career-driven, and personable Company brand - having KPMG on your resume opens a lot of doors

Cons

Office politics - trying to get on a desirable project requires a lot of networking and going back and forth between the Partners and HR Horizontal movement - difficult to move between service lines; it's often times easier to apply to another Big 4 than it is moving within the company Salary/Benefits - compared to industry we're selling ourselves short but the experience and name is the trade-off

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Cons

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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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