Great place to start a career. - Transaction Services Associate KPMG Employee Review

4.0
7 Aug 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and great place to start a career. 25 vacation days as an associate, with good matching 401(k). There are good training opportunities and decent starting salary. There are international rotations and plenty of other programs to help you on whatever you like. Compensation increases are substantial annually, with good bonuses.

Cons

It is hard to advance beyond your peers, even if you perform better. The time it takes to reach manager, director and partner is increasing each year.

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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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