KPMG reviews

1. Training is mediocre (aside from the CA and tax formal programs) and has shifted a lot to online training in recent years. 2. International opportunities can be limited - being in Australia we are often so far away from the rest of the world it is expensive to utilise Australians 3. Poor knowledge management - knowledge is often shared by individual connections rather than retaining reusable assets from each project to be shared

- Pay is terrible, particularly when compared to the local market. - Mostly a bodyshop that posts people to Defence to earn revenue while the firm doesn't really adding any value at all. - Has stopped caring about its people. - Once upon a time it put on a great Christmas Party for its people for free. Now it makes people pay for it. Sends a pretty clear message that the firm no longer cares about its people. - Trying to grow too aggressively and all the worrying telltale signs are clear: good people are leaving, quality standards are decreasing or being compromised, can't do the small things like put on a free Christmas party for its people, not enough office space for everyone etc. - Opportunities for progression are limited and progression is still very much based on time in rank rather than a genuine meritocracy. In its efforts to grow aggressively, lateral hires are absorbing a lot of the opportunities available. - Very high-cost, which makes it expensive, which prices it out of work. - Deficient or absent leadership at many levels which doesn't really add any value. No vision. No strategy. - Really painful mandatory training about risk, security etc. - Selling work to clients is an obsession and promotions are based on ability to sell work; not leadership, not skills, not quality of work etc. - There is mass unhappiness and dissatisfaction and the partnership is either oblivious or comfortable with this. - Really ungenerous and miserly bonuses. - Poor systems.