KPMG reviews

- your work-life balance highly depends on which audit department you joined or engagement team you joined, but is almost ALL non-existent. The office is often packed during weekends. - you have to be mentally strong as you might face some nasty managers who only treat you like cheap labour (even interns) and are simply not appreciative or empathetic. - top management is awfully tone deaf or simply turn a blind eye from the voice from the floor. Pay cut, lower bonus, no Golden Week given during COVID period which was so unfair as we had to work even harder during MCO (even longer hours too). Extremely high turnover rate but instead of trying to retain GOOD seniors with retention offers ($$), tend to guilt trip & gaslighting that "everyone is going through this", "just stay one more year it will get better" etc. Apparently also thinks that fresh grads = appropriate replacements for senior levels who resigned. - Senior level staff are severely burnt out from clashing of audit engagements while being allocated fresh new joiners to guide and rarely any second in-line to assist, at least 50% of the new joiners don't last too based on my observation (due to the work culture). - OT claims needs to be approved by managers with tight rules to follow. Assistant Managers and above are not allowed to claim OT ($$) instead we are only offered time-off which we actually cannot decide when to utilise (usually immediately after the end of an engagement, cannot keep to use for later), but what's the point of time-off granted when we are already fully allocated for the entire year? Even if we take time-off we have no choice but to still work due to deadlines. - truly enjoyed the audit work but unfortunately the work culture is simply getting more horrible these days that I've chose to leave.

- High turnover, which meant that the load on the surviving staff gets heavier. Although yes, hiring rates also went up (not sure if this is good or bad), the load doesn't seem to lighten for the surviving staff. - Although there are minimal office politics (which is great even though this is a by-product of excessive workload), the fact that our promotions (and bonuses, since promotions are for good performers and bonuses, are based on performances) are tied to appraisals that can be determined solely by one senior member of the team, makes it quite susceptible to biases. - Working hours... this is a common complaint of many. This is mainly because of the need to manage costs (clearly for KPI purposes though I have to admit there are probably other reasons which I wouldn't have known of) which resulted in ridiculous plottings for the audit teams. - And yes, expectations of being double-plotted are present (I mean, management can tell us that they are working towards eliminating that but c'mon we are not that oblivious and gullible) but the actual extent of it is actually quite scary.