JESS was bitter sweet. - Anonymous employee KPMG Employee Review

2.0
Dec 1, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I worked at JESS, the best thing is your exposed to a different culture and get help with school.

Cons

I worked at JESS. The setting was more like a call centre setting had to work on Jamaican holidays, the system was flawed, the people there not nice and only promote you based on favours or If they like you. had to attend alot of meetings with the employers them in USA who were very hard to please. managers are like puppet on a string for the onshore USA employers. your a support staff and so is treated as such. hated the experience. do not leave your job to go to JESS, it's best you go to KPMG Jamaica, the audit firm.

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Cons

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