Great Career Stepping Stone - Tax Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

3.0
Jul 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You will gain valuable and highly marketable experience working for large and prestigious clients. You will gain an immediate network of intelligent and motivated young professionals who will one day be in positions of authority. You will have training and support of a top-tier worldwide organization. You will work for a company that treats you like a professional and affords great flexibility. Paid time off is excellent. Compensation is decent.

Cons

The merely decent compensation seems lackluster when you consider the extravagant number of hours that you will work--work/life balance is unsurprisingly a weakness. Almost all recruiting is carried out on college campuses, which has two potential downsides: first, the people recruited tend to be of the fraternity/sorority persuasion, which may not be your cup of tea; second, if you were not recruited in college, it will probably be very difficult to get a job here.

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Pros

You get to work with an awesome, highly resilient group of local peers in the advisory practice. The KPMG brand still holds value, but the internal team dynamics have become incredibly fractured.

Cons

We have outsourced 80%+ of our Risk Advisory work, leaving onshore seniors with massive gaps in their experience. As a manager, I am stuck doing senior-level work because I typically have only one or zero local seniors or associates on my teams. The best leaders have already resigned because this model prevents actual management and mentoring. Also, it might take you 30+ years to become partner in Risk Advisory, if at all.

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