Great people, terrible department - Anonymous employee KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Sep 28, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people you work with tend to be really professional, very friendly high-achievers who went to the big four because they didn't know what they wanted to do after university. I think the department I was in was part of the reason I really didn't enjoy my job but I know other departments (like consulting) are apparently a lot better to work at. Also it does look OK on your CV

Cons

Abuse of highly skilled employees, high workload with very low compensation, very happy to dump as much responsibility on you as possible with as little compensation as possible. They lie about being willing to pay for your exams unless you are in the tax or audit departments (I was in the managed solutions department KMS). I know people who were there for 2 and a half years and they refused to even enter discussions about paying for exams. Also communication is absolutely abysmal, it took me 6 months to find out their overtime rate (13.37 p/h for anyone wondering). They want to keep you in the dark as much as possible about as many things as possible which sucks

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Good Benefits - Get the week of the fourth of July and the week of Christmas off every year.

Cons

They say we are doing well but everyone is stagnant. No real opportunities to get promoted or raises. Gone through 3 layoffs. Management says that no one is leaving because they love working there but no one is leaving because the market is bad. That is the reason for a backlog of folks trying to move up.

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