OK Place to Build Your Career - Senior Manager KPMG Employee Review

3.0
28 Aug 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary; good benefits; smart people; good training; good clients

Cons

The "Great Place to Build Your Career" works if you have just gotten out of school and want to "pay dues" so you can move on to something else. If you have an established career outside public accounting and come in as a manager, it might be a bit different. The culture doesn't lend itself to new ideas and innovative business practices. Anyone coming in with ideas about how to more efficiently manage projects and engagements (i.e. automation, resource utilization, benchmarking) may not be seen as trying to help the bottom line. There also seems to be a lot of subjectivity on performance reviews especially during hard times. It gives the appearance of trying to "paper the file" when reviews are used to justify layoffs.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

It might sound cliche but the Pro for me is the people that I work with. I'm lucky enough to be staffed in a team with great leadership. Managers are actually willing to coach junior members and be a real mentor. I very much appreciate their efforts.

Cons

Long hours and office politics. This is pretty basic and obvious for any public accounting firms. Every time a quarter end, year end, or a special filing is going out, you can expect 10-14 hour days. It might be fine in your early career but it gets really tiring after a few years.

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