Terrible experience - hate every day of it - Senior Associate KPMG Employee Review

1.0
Nov 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Just like others, they offer salaries.

Cons

There are so many fallacies with this firm. It’s family business not a multinational firm. There are no HR policies rather discriminating HR policies. Not a professional work environment. If you are a relative of the leaders then you have all chances of growing in this firm because: - You don't have to be qualified to grow. - No need to have desired skill sets to grow. - No need to work for long hours. - Year on year have 'exceptional performance rating' and every year a promotion + bonus. - Training/ conferences to Europe are like honeymoon trips. There are clear discriminating HR policies in the organization. Many qualified and good people left KPMG Kuwait because growth was limited to sons/relatives of the partners and their favorites.

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Cons

Let go during RIF. When I started with the firm back in 2015, RIF's didn't occur much but now has become the normal once a year at minimum at KPMG. You must be on top of you game now (high performance culture) otherwise can be let go at any moments notice. Unfortunately if you do amazing on your engagement work, doesn’t mean anything to leadership and can still be let go, especially at manager level and requires you to put many additional hours per week doing extra curricular (Business Proposals, Certifications, etc.).

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