KPMG Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Good salary and benefits. A lot of responsibility and independence to do your work. Senior management has monthly phone conferences to let you know what changes are likely coming.

Cons

With the economic downturn, severe cutbacks were made to the 401(k) match and the inability to go out of town for CPE/CLE seminars.

Advice to Senior Management

Let the partners bear more of the burden of the downturn rather than penalizing the associates so much. Keep the focus on training and retaining the associates.

Pros

The people are very friendly and caring of your personal and work time. Excellent salary, and growth opportunities.

Cons

Long work hours during busy seasons.

Advice to Senior Management

international training opportunities needs to be advertised more

Pros

work/life balance
looks good on resume
great benefits
plenty of time off
many projects to work on
good clients
friendly people

Cons

great place to start your career but that's about it, don't expect to go too far in the company just because you work hard.
meaningless work
weak leadership

Advice to Senior Management

reward the people who perform well, recognize their efforts. pay your employees more and give them more responsibilities. you need better leadership

Pros

The pay is pretty good, looks good on a resume, good experience depending on clients you work on and people you work with

Cons

poor work/life balance, sometimes forced to eat hours, managers often micro-manage, you pretty much have to suck up to people to make it in this firm

Advice to Senior Management

Show employees that you appreciate their hardwork, , dont wait until the end of the year to give feedback on performance

Pros

Experience, net-working, brand name, good training programms, future opportunities

Cons

Hours, not flexible, scheduling problems, availability during summer.

Advice to Senior Management

Flexibility will be nice

Pros

They have groups for people with different backgrounds. They sponsor lots of events to promote network. All this makes you part of the family.

Cons

Long hours and travel. .

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of the employees that travel more than 25% of the time.

Pros

The young and dynamic atmosphere and ability to move around within business sectors and within different offices.

Cons

The bureaucratic nature of working at a huge corporate environment.

Advice to Senior Management

They do a really good job of placing employees on projects.

Pros

It is a great place to start your career. At the end of three years of employment, there are practically endless opportunities available. The people are very cool and fun to be around, and it makes working long hours very easy. The diverse relationships you build in your first three years are incredibly valuable to building your network. I started my career at KPMG with an internship and I would recommend that experience to any person who has the chance to do it.

Cons

The hours are very long. Although the hours are very long, it is quite consistent with the industry.

Advice to Senior Management

I can't think of anything that they don't already know.

Pros

Brand name on the resume, 25 days vacation for new employees.

Cons

Work life balance is not valued at all. Management will talk all about how they are on the top 100 list for best employers to work for, but all the perks (work life balance, flexible work schedule, etc.) only apply for secretaries in the office (client support staff). No client delivery people (90% of the company) can partake in these perks as you're slaving away at some client site somewhere. Partners will promise the client the moon, and then leave staff to figure out how to deliver. Typical client service, don't think its different from any other Big 4 firm.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to get the perks to the people that are actually making the money - the client delivery personnel! Not the admins!

Pros

Varienty of assignments, exposure to multiple industries

Cons

Politics, lack of consistent feedback

Advice to Senior Management

None