What is overtime like at KPMG?

Nice office amenities and location.

Bad culture, too much unpaid overtime and no work life balance.

Good experience working on multinational clients

Too much overtime and lack of work life balance

1. Strong reputation and brand recognition: KPMG is one of the Big Four accounting firms, with a global presence and a strong reputation for quality and expertise. This can be beneficial for your career development and marketability. 2. Diverse career opportunities: KPMG offers a wide range of services across various industries, which translates to numerous career paths within the firm. You can explore different areas like audit, tax, advisory, consulting, and more. 3. Focus on professional development: KPMG invests heavily in its employees' development, offering various training programs, certifications, and leadership opportunities. This can help you enhance your skills and knowledge throughout your career. 4. Collaborative and inclusive work environment: KPMG emphasizes teamwork and collaboration across different departments and offices. They also promote an inclusive culture that values diversity and respects individual differences. 5. Work-life balance: While consulting and accounting jobs can be demanding, KPMG strives to offer work-life balance through flexible work arrangements, paid time off, and employee wellbeing programs.

1. Work-life balance: While KPMG promotes work-life balance, the reality can be demanding, especially during busy seasons. Long hours and overtime are common, which can impact personal life and well-being. 2. High pressure and demanding environment: KPMG is a competitive firm, and performance expectations can be high. This can lead to a stressful and pressure-filled work environment for some employees. 3. Travel requirements: Depending on your role and location, travel may be a significant aspect of the job. This can be exciting for some, but it can also be disruptive and tiring for others. 4. Bureaucracy and hierarchy: As a large organization, KPMG might have complex internal processes and hierarchical structures. This can sometimes lead to slow decision-making and limited individual autonomy. 5. Compensation and benefits: While KPMG offers competitive salaries and benefits, some reviews mention feeling their compensation wasn't always commensurate with their workload or responsibilities.

Good pay, Good leaves, Good management

No work life balance, overtime

Culture, people, environment, growth, work life balance

BU politics, no overtime, no recognition, no work life balance, people

Great exposure and learning opportunities

Endless of overtime and no work life balance

pretty well paid in this company

overtime, no work life balance

Lots of learning opportunities and networking

Long hours and no overtime pay

They paid for my masters

If I leave before 3 years, I have to pay back the >$100k of tuition fees. I work 50-60 hours a week almost the whole year with no overtime and get paid much less than I should.

- I enjoy the varied and dynamic nature of consultancy work with clients and internal teams. Some clients are super nice, some are not as nice, as in any consultancy job. - Lack of micromanagement and hierarchy as opposed to the industry is a breath of fresh air, and probably the reason why I am still there. I am trusted to do my job and I am not treated like a child at school. - Flexible working hours and office locations help to keep it fresh and dynamic. - Colleagues at KPMG are super friendly, humble, helpful, and amongst the most intelligent people I’ve ever worked with. - AXA Health insurance - Car cash allowance

- Intrusive internal guidelines: as an audit company, personal scrutiny goes beyond belief. Even if you're not married, you have to disclose your partner's investments. - Unstable pipeline impacts client work: client utilization is how you are measured against, but the pipeline is inconsistent. This leads to being stuck in an "average grade" loop during performance reviews, regardless of effort put into daily work. - Political promotion process: to be considered for promotion, you must take on 2-3 unrelated internal roles, which are full time roles, while still managing client work and utilization. Basically this means that it doesn’t matter how amazing you are performing the role you were hired for, you will not be considered for promotion based on that solely. You also can be impeded of a promotion if you forget to submit timesheets (you’re not paid against them), or miss a training, or an email to submit your independence form. You also see the folks on grades below partner often online until 10pm, clearly over worked and burnout, which makes you wonder if you really want to progress your career there. - Non-existent work/life balance: workdays often extend to 14 hours when you’re with clients. There isn’t much to do in between client assignments, but you are often spending that time working on unrelated projects or trying to recover from burnout. - Lack of internal incentives: budget cuts result in subpar accommodations, limited social events, and a meager 3% bonus. Many employees did not receive a pay raise last year. I feel like we are treated as collateral, not assets, when it’s us bring the millions in profit every year. - Poor holiday offering: they offer 25 days in the UK, but you have to use 2-3 days out of your allowance for their annual closure. You are also not allowed to work from other countries. - Unapproachable partners: you will likely deal with directors most of your time, if you are anything below senior-manager. Partners only appear during town halls, and client negotiation phase. I doubt they know the names and faces of everyone in their teams. - Business development goals: you are “kindly pushed” to work on financial targets with clients, even when it is not part of your role. - D&I lacks inclusion of neurodiversity, specially when it comes to training and behavioural assessments (which can count towards your promotion). Feels like you need to have a certain type of personality to stand out. - The company does not provide paid overtime but deducts wages for any reason they find, with no warning (I’ll explain more below)