KPMG Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Former Employee – worked at KPMG

Pros – good starting place for building your career.

Cons – get out after a few years dont think staying long will be rewarded in any way

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at KPMG

Pros – The best reasons to work for KPMG is for the experience you receive. It is a wonderful place to start a career.

Cons – The work life balance is non-existance. It is difficult to have a work life balance. However, you know this when you take the job.

Advice to Senior Management – I believe they need to have a larger audit staff in order for employees to work more normal work hours.

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at KPMG

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

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at KPMG

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at KPMG

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!