Success Hinges on Whether the Team Wants You Working with Them - Audit Associate KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Jun 28, 2025
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Pros

A lot of resources for learning Hybrid work schedule Interview process is super easy for entry level associates Posh offices Opportunities to travel Corporate expense and business cards Firm-wide shutdown (if not on call to do inventory counts) Flexibility to study for your CPA FREE CPA study materials Opportunities to meet new people

Cons

Toxic company culture Layoffs are eminent. Do not get too comfortable Your success depends on whether the team embraces you. If you do not look like or speak like them, you might feel isolated and excluded Team member can be rude Very little training once assigned to engagement and they can get frustrated when you don’t understand something Quarterly performance reviews, so your performance is tracked. Their expectations are unreasonably high given that you are fresh, coming in with virtually no experience in the audit profession.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great general benefits however not as good as it was when I first started at the firm 11 years ago. Firm used to provide better employee incentives but no longer provides. Employee experience all depends on who you report to and work with. Some have great experiences, while others are completely over-worked.

Cons

Let go during RIF. When I started with the firm back in 2015, RIF's didn't occur much but now has become the normal once a year at minimum at KPMG. You must be on top of you game now (high performance culture) otherwise can be let go at any moments notice. Unfortunately if you do amazing on your engagement work, doesn’t mean anything to leadership and can still be let go, especially at manager level and requires you to put many additional hours per week doing extra curricular (Business Proposals, Certifications, etc.).

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