Great resume builder but....... - Advisory Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to start a career for the young professionals and build a solid resume. With the right mindset you can increase your knowledge/skills and broaden your exposure to the marketplace you wish to focus on. Can also develope great contacts within the industry you practice.

Cons

Very political and too much weighted on tenure versus skills/knowledge/accomplishments. I have to question the career development for certain areas within the firm. If you are not in the right circle of leaders and management it can be very hard to move up within the firm. I expected smart intellegient people to work with when i came here however i was very unimpressed with the level of knowledge and skills from both the staff as well as managers and even certain partners.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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