I like the work - the company, not so much - Senior Manager KPMG Employee Review

- 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)