Just like all the other big 4 - Advisory Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

4.0
Sep 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Big 4 experience has a lot of opportunities for travel (double edged sword). I got to see a lot of impressive places (US and international) and got to work on a lot of big name clients. You’re surrounded by a bunch of really smart motivated people.

Cons

The other side of the smart motivated people is that people take credit for others work, throwing co-workers ‘under the bus’ if the time/budget isn’t met. I had a real since that if I wasn’t the favorite of the manager I was working for I wasn’t going to have a strong advocate at the meetings to rank the staff (e.g. salary increase/bonus)

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4.0
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Cons

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