Complete focus on the financial reward of the partners! - Director KPMG Employee Review

1.0
6 Jun 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Financially sound with a good reputation for quality services. You will work with very capable and dedicated people.

Cons

Low pay, VERY LOW bonuses, reasonable utilization metric tied to a 100% plus billable hours metric, low chance for promotion and no appreciation from the executive level. Executive management cannot be bothered with the staff. KPMG is totally focused on billable hours and you are pressed relentlessly to charge every second in order to exceed your metrics. You have to fight to get compensated for business expenses and you are penalized for not getting your time recorded in advance of the work. There is no administrative support. Time for training and business development are expected in addition to your 100% billable hours metric. The only path to promotion is 12 hours a day, 6+ days a week to hit your billable hours and other requirements. I was actually told that people should do training and other non-chargeable activities on holidays and weekends. It's still the 1920's at KPMG from a treatment of employees perspective. KPMG is still a tax and audit company at their heart.

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
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Pros

The people are the best to work with

Cons

The hours are long and lots of meetings depending where you sit in the org

2.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with an awesome, highly resilient group of local peers in the advisory practice. The KPMG brand still holds value, but the internal team dynamics have become incredibly fractured.

Cons

We have outsourced 80%+ of our Risk Advisory work, leaving onshore seniors with massive gaps in their experience. As a manager, I am stuck doing senior-level work because I typically have only one or zero local seniors or associates on my teams. The best leaders have already resigned because this model prevents actual management and mentoring. Also, it might take you 30+ years to become partner in Risk Advisory, if at all.

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