Great brand. Great place to get experience - Senior Advisory Manager KPMG Employee Review

4.0
Feb 6, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

This review relates to the Advisory side of the business: The brand opens up access to companies and projects you would not otherwise be exposed to. Especially if you find yourself working on prestige projects A powerful brand for your CV Good work life balance Good central office locations

Cons

Can be hard to progress between grades - can be hard for managers to make it to senior manager There can be silo mentatlity amongst the various groups Complex internal structure Differentiators to the other Big 4 sometimes hard to grasp

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

A lot of smart people to learn from

Cons

A lot of people leave. Utilization is also a dumb metric now with how much money they are dumping into their AI. Work is getting done quicker, hence less hours are being charged even when busy. Margins are consistently up despite hours being down so I don't get the need for higher utilzation KPI's anymore. On top of that, managers make you "eat" your chargeable hours to stay within their very small budgets now too, so utilzation does not really reflect anything meaningful anymore. Commercial consultants work 1.5-2x more than federal consultants but federal consultants are usually 100% utilzed because they must use the full budget despite the work not taking as long/as stressful of deadlines.

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