Selling Your Soul - Audit Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Oct 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The best reasons for working at KPMG are: 1) Opportunity to work in a Big Four environment 2) Great raises and fair bonus structure 3) Flexibility in schedule (e.g., working from home)

Cons

The downsides of working at KPMG are: 1) Boring work (unless you love accounting) 2) Awful work/life balance for no reason (long hours simply because Partners are at a client site -- not due to to heavy workloads) 3) The fact that everyone is promoted each year, regadless of performance 4) Inefficient process (hard copy workpapers, and a highly inefficient end to end audit process) 5) Negative working environment

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