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The company's culture is really good
Net Developer (Former Employee), Montvale, NJ – May 16, 2013
I work for this company for 6 weeks. I really like this company. The company's culture are really good.
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An excellent place to work
Principal and Associate General Counsel (Current Employee), New York, NY – May 15, 2013
KPMG allows professionals to advance through the organization without regard to race, creed, color or sexual orientation.
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fun workplace
customer service advsior (Former Employee), leeds – May 13, 2013
Pros: good wage
Cons: no advancement
updating customers info, upating customers on PPI claim, setting up PPI claims
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Work/life balance
Sr. Technology Business Management Consultant (Current Employee), Raleigh, NC – May 10, 2013
Professional staff, work life balance, productive management
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Range of tax and regulatory related assignments - Advisory + Compliances
Senior Executive (Current Employee), India – May 7, 2013
Pros: food for thought and brain
1. Every day is a challenge with a hope of new assignments and interaction with people.
2. The day ends with good learing which includes technical updation, learning new skill sets etc.
3. I find the variety of advisory / consultancy work enjoying and challenging.
4. After 2.5 years of stinct with KPMG has made me confident, professional and objective.
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Great place to start your career
Senior Audit Associate - Level 2 (Current Employee), New York, NY – May 6, 2013
Pros: job security, vacation time
Cons: work life balance
Job security and advancement opportunities are great. Working here is really an investment in your career as you will not be paid a competitive salary, and the work life balance is tough. Overall great people to work with here.
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Lots of new things to learn out of College, but easy to get misplaced in the shuffle
Associate - Financial Management (Current Employee), New York, NY – May 4, 2013
Pros: good compensation, time off, potential opportunities, friendly co-workers
Cons: problems in various internal processes: on-boarding, accessibility of peers, training.
Throughout various client projects I was able to learn many different skills both technical and softer inter-personal business skills. Initially my experience was fast-paced; I was immediately scheduled on a project and, attending meetings with various clients within weeks, and producing substantial deliverables on my own.

On-the-whole the typical – more... work week was traveling to the client-site on Mondays and leave on Thursdays, staying at local hotels durring the week. Hours tend to be around 50+ hour weeks. On Fridays, you are implicitly expected to go into your local office to take care of some administrative work and network.

I had been moving from project to project every 6 or 8 months. However, I've found myself on a very long term engagement and have started to feel stagnant in my role. I've struggled to transition away from this project.

As my first job out of college, I expected some substantial guidance and training. I felt a rather consistent lack of support in this regard. I often felt like the development path picked for me was not fully considered.

In spite of some of the frustrations depicted here,I have no regrets about joining the firm. My co-workers have been typically great to work with and approachable. If you are prepared to travel and firmly drive your own career path (and experienced doing so), there can be great opportunity for you here. Be prepared to deal with some internal inefficiencies and bureaucracy. – less
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good place to start a career
Associate (Current Employee), Houston, TX – May 2, 2013
people are nice
management is good to work with for the most part
compensation is not that great for all the work they require
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Engaging, Forward thinking and progressive workplace
IT Operations Manager (Former Employee), Watford – April 30, 2013
Huge career potential with excellent life skills coaching. A company which believes and delivers high values, whilst providing opportunities for those wishing to move move forward.
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Great place to work
Tax Technician - Paraprofessional (Former Employee), Baton Rouge, LA – April 25, 2013
Pros: family values
Cons: sending lower positions to india
Company is very interested in balancing the work and family.
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Sweatshop
Sr. Associate (Current Employee), Chicago – April 24, 2013
Pros: great benefits packages
Cons: sweatshop
If you're someone in your early 20's starting off and have no commitments that prevent you from working 70 hours a week them its for you. However, if you are more senior in experience then look forward to sacrificing your personal life. They have no concern for employees that are not robots. They know they can gain 100 + resumes for an open position. – more... Not a good place to work. There's a reason they're not in the top 100 employers anymore after slipping consistently in the rankings and now falling off. – less
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Good company culture, good training schemes
Summer Intern, Financial Services Audit (Former Employee), London, ENG – April 21, 2013
I gained experience in half year audit, working with the teams at client sites.
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professionalism is the key
Auditor (Former Employee), Красноярск, SIB – April 21, 2013
This is a job for someone who wants to become a real professional and who doesn't have personal life, because with the travel and work hours there's no time for family and friends. But it will give you a lot of room for personal and professional development.
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Good place to work while you are there, not so great when you get let go
Manager (Current Employee), Montvale, NJ – April 15, 2013
Pros: ample vacation days, great benefits especially when firm is doing well
Cons: not so great at hr and letting people go with class/dignity
People at KPMG are generally professional, hard-working and trying to do the right thing. Although like in any large organization it has its fair share of politics, very few screamers or total jerks.

Depends on your manager of course, but generally they do try to provide a work/life balance and there are plenty of great benefits available.

One area – more... they are not so great at is HR and layoffs in particular. Have heard some awful things about they way things were handled.

Overall there are some real quality people there to work with and learn from, but like any other place has some flaws. – less
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Good place to learn and grow, at the expense of work life balance
Sr Associate (Current Employee), Seattle, WA – April 10, 2013
Good place to learn. The organization is interested in moving people along the important milestones. Compensation is comparable to other firms. Best thing about the job is the hard working and energetic peers. Cons are too much work, but its expected.
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An ideal place to showcase your skills and talents.
Semi Senior - Audit (Former Employee), Mumbai, India – April 9, 2013
Pros: very helpful and understanding seniors.
Cons: long hours
A typical day at KPMG is full of hard work and fun at the same time.

Great place to groom your professional skills and learn from a great team of professionals.

The hardest part of the job is spending long hours at work.

The most enjoyable part of the job is recognition and motivation from your seniors.
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Good place to work
Executive (Former Employee), Hyderabad – April 9, 2013
Pros: free lunches
Cons: long hours sometimes
Learning curve was great. It was fun workplace. Good enviornment.
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Senior Associate (Former Employee), Albany NY – April 8, 2013
Pros: if u have 2-3 years of experience, ready to put in 10-12 hrs a day, in your 20's, looking for less pay and you can be a follower then you're hired
Cons: if you have good experience then this place can't afford you.
I was recently invited twice by KPMG for seven technical interviews in Albany NY. The employees acted as they were Gods and the people there need to bow them and praise KPMG.

I was told by one of the managers that why should they hire me when they have so many peoplecandidates dying to work for KPMG. It sounded very insulting to me to convince them – more... to hire me like I was begging to work for them.

I was told by one of the Directors that the Partner who interviewed me had no knowledge of what goes on in the firm. This was a little weird to hear that.

I was very confident in replying back all the techinical questions and after excellent interview I was not contacted. I emailed the recruiter and he didn't even bother to get back to me and say No. Such a shameless company who act to be professional and don't even let u know the result. – less
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Not for me
Tax Associate (Former Employee), Detroit, MI – April 5, 2013
Pros: 25 vacation days per year, challenging work
Cons: long hours, management, other employees
While I enjoyed the pay, vacation time, and challenging work; co-workers and management were clicky (like high school). New people are treated like untrusting nobodys. Until you prove yourself, you will not have work. When you don't have work, you get in trouble with management.
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Not a secure work enviornment. No commitment to their employees.
HR (Former Employee), Chicago – April 4, 2013
Pros: work life balance
Cons: constant layoffs
KPMG is constantly "re-organizing" and laying off employees. They are slowly getting rid of their older workers. Last lay off they had in October 2012, they let go of several pregnant women, a women who was undergoing cancer treatment in Charlotte and mostly employees that had been with the company 10 or more years.
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