Toxic Culture: Stay Away! - Senior Accountant KPMG Employee Review

1.0
23 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- opportunity to work on many complex clients - develop project management and leadership skills very quickly if you put in the time and effort to invest in yourself

Cons

- incredibly toxic work culture that permeates from the top down - senior managers who go behind your back and throw you under the bus with partners to disguise their own incompetence - if you’re in audit, they will sell you the opportunity to do rotations in other groups, but in reality the highly sought after advisory roles are extremely competitive and managers have no problem clawing you back on their audit files during your rotation - there have been at least four emergency meetings over the past six months to discuss retention and ways to improve the culture, with no real or concrete pathway for achieving this - this speaks to how toxic the culture is and perhaps an overhaul of the manager group is warranted

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5.0
16 Apr 2026
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Pros

future job moves internal promotions client trust

Cons

Busy season intensity Deadline-driven stress cycles “Always on” expectations during peaks

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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