Great Experience - Advisory Associate KPMG Employee Review

5.0
Jul 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Career advancement is huge. KPMG supplies great training to employees. Investing tons of time into detailed trainings that are critical to your success in the field. Also they allow you to get plenty of exposure across a broad industry. The applications and various policies you get to see early on give you a firm foundation for examining best practices. It won't take long for you to be able to pick up concepts that fortune 500 companies struggle with and the experience of talking with CFOs and other management with far more industry experience and advising them on a course of action is invaluable.

Cons

The main downside is a lack of community can happen. Advisory will constantly be out at the client site. This allows you to get a good sense of team work with a few people, but you can be with the firm for years and still not meet with peers who were hired with you because employees are so dispursed. There is always the dredded busy season which seems somewhat tame, but even during busy season the most you are expected to work is around 50 hours a week. Higher education is not as prized at KPMG. Many managers do not have masters degrees and such as experience is prized much more than degrees. So those with years of masters degrees and doctorates and expect to make the same as new hires with a bachelor's degree.

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5.0
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Pros

Good learning environment, the teams help support your development when you're new, and they take you under their wing to succeed in your role.

Cons

It is a grind, work-life balance can become nonexistent, and it can be draining.

4.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

It might sound cliche but the Pro for me is the people that I work with. I'm lucky enough to be staffed in a team with great leadership. Managers are actually willing to coach junior members and be a real mentor. I very much appreciate their efforts.

Cons

Long hours and office politics. This is pretty basic and obvious for any public accounting firms. Every time a quarter end, year end, or a special filing is going out, you can expect 10-14 hour days. It might be fine in your early career but it gets really tiring after a few years.

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