KPMG reviews

There are plenty of partners and leaders who do NOT live up to KPMG's values, which are heavily and consistently talked about and promoted throughout the firm. Certain individuals are allowed to continue to mistreat and/or abuse more junior staff members simply because they're "rainmakers" and the firm wouldn't want to cut them loose. Also, the gender discrimination issue is still very much a thing. This year's promotions "process" demonstrated that very clearly. It's pretty frustrating to see female colleagues working their tails off and taking on extra workload, only to not get promoted, because a few men have been "in line" longer. That's not supposed to be what promotions are based on (according to every HR presentation I've ever seen on this topic), yet that's how it went down this year. Very frustrating.

Very sad to say, the office politics is extreme and local people favoritism is very obvious. I can guarantee the progression for an expat is 1/4 the chance of a local, I see expat works 3 years to be a Manager candidate, and they promote a local straight after 1 year qualified to Manager. And in here they make an level call Associate Audit Manager (Manager candidate), an extra gap between Assistant Manager to Manager, it is not like London they promote people within 18 months. For an expat, you should expect to be a manager from assistant manager in 3 to 4 years. FS experience is okey but not in London standard, but the team management experience is poor, an In Charge mostly on one man job, and mostly just have an Indian division to delegate work. The local staff are mostly school leavers and did not attend university. Standard in general, is below big city standard. Also a small Big4 office, below 100 people.