KPMG reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(57,060 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

KPMG has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 57,060 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KPMG employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Oct 12, 2018

Senior Manager

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Pros

1.Learning opportunities, including transfer within departments and global mobility. 2. You get to work with young people or people of the same generation. 3.Try hard to organise activities to reward people during the off peak.

Cons

1. Reward is very not aligned to effort. I completed twice the portfolio but was given $1k more as a reward. I was also not awarded being an excellent performer as i did average for a small client and I was already exhausted by then, even though I already spoke up that I am burnt but they don’t listen. End up my performance for the last job of the year, which is a small job, had the biggest say in my performance. 2. No one (and I mean the senior partners) wants to be responsible when things look like going down the drain (although they were involved right at the beginning) but everyone wants a slice when things start to pick up. No doubt people will say this is common every where, but these people are too senior that it was unbelievable. 3. Attrition rate is high. Can never seem to address the root cause even though the firm received best employer award year on year. 4. Most of the times, they only react when people tender their resignation. But yet they claim that they know and understand what’s happening on the ground.

1.0
Sep 30, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

+ decent salary in the industry, believe its the highest amongst big 4 + Lunch allowance, which has now increased to £5 per day. + Laxed expenses policy. They also pay for most of your travel. + Decent socials if you're in the right dept. Otherwise, non-existent + They pay for a professional qualification. + Great on the CV.

Cons

- No worklife balance. At all. - You will be shafted as soon as you are an E3 (i.e. third year, when you have to 'incharge' an audit. Life at that point just gets worse and worse.) - The travel is genuinely painful. Going to different client every couple of weeks, some of them in the middle of nowhere to work long hours. - Management tend to shaft you. There's a whole culture of just throwing all the work at the incharge. - Some departments are terribly short-staffed. This compounds all of the above issues. KPMG is not one big company - it's so huge that each dept is like it's own company with it's own policies/HR/etc. I was particularly unlucky to be in one that did not care about staff shortages, and instead focussed on winning more clients...!!! Animalistic behaviour from the profit hungry. - No responsibility taken by junior staff (1st and 2nd years) so they don't know what as hit them when they reach E3. Partly a cultural issue. - Turnover rate is extreme. Just look at how many people leave <3 years, it's ridiculous.

3.0
Sep 24, 2018

Salary

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Pros

Flexible work; independence; good access to knowledge management;

Cons

Highly competitive; not family friendly; old boys club

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