Pros
+ decent salary in the industry, believe its the highest amongst big 4 + Lunch allowance, which has now increased to £5 per day. + Laxed expenses policy. They also pay for most of your travel. + Decent socials if you're in the right dept. Otherwise, non-existent + They pay for a professional qualification. + Great on the CV.
Cons
- No worklife balance. At all. - You will be shafted as soon as you are an E3 (i.e. third year, when you have to 'incharge' an audit. Life at that point just gets worse and worse.) - The travel is genuinely painful. Going to different client every couple of weeks, some of them in the middle of nowhere to work long hours. - Management tend to shaft you. There's a whole culture of just throwing all the work at the incharge. - Some departments are terribly short-staffed. This compounds all of the above issues. KPMG is not one big company - it's so huge that each dept is like it's own company with it's own policies/HR/etc. I was particularly unlucky to be in one that did not care about staff shortages, and instead focussed on winning more clients...!!! Animalistic behaviour from the profit hungry. - No responsibility taken by junior staff (1st and 2nd years) so they don't know what as hit them when they reach E3. Partly a cultural issue. - Turnover rate is extreme. Just look at how many people leave <3 years, it's ridiculous.