Great place to learn! - Anonymous employee KPMG Employee Review

4.0
14 May 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Best financial service practices compared to other Big 4. - Definitely a great place to learn for a fresh graduate accountant. - Good salaries compared to other big 4 (since overtime is included). - Work life balance is definitely better than the other big 4. - Got to meet some marvelously smart and exemplary Bosses with whom you learn more than just accounting and auditing. - As the slogan said "Cutting through complexity", the techniques applied for several industries is more straightforward and get to the point, with substantially less complexity compared to other big 4 (yes, I often compare our techniques with other big 4).

Cons

- The poorest medical benefit system compared to other big 4. - A lot of people there just can't mind their own business and love to talk about the others, mostly the people talked bad in the back, gave harsh comments, and laughed at juniors for their newbie mistakes which in most cases, those mistakes are actually acceptable. - Somehow it seems that even to the upper levels, personal feelings are still being considered as priority compared to the professional work ethics, which definitely slowing the works and trampling the professional concept.

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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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