KPMG reviews

The benefits are great. You get five weeks of paid vacation/PTO on top of several firm holidays which you will NEED for the number of hours you work when you are there (see the dissatisfied work-life balance). If you are up for the hours and ready to kiss your life goodbye for 17 hour days during your 6-8 week busy-season every year the payoff in experience and things you get to do like interacting with high level executives at Fortune 500 companies is so worth it. At a time in the Bay Area after the dot-com bust when companies are declaring bankruptcy, very close to breaking even, or watching every penny that is spent KPMG is still spending to impress. You can expect lavish recruiting events and lots of presents and goodies at events. There is a beautiful black-tie optional Christmas party with dinner and live music, summer picnics, fall baseball day with tailgate party, winter ski trip (where the company will pick up your trip, lift ticket, rentals, lessons, and food/drinks), sign off parties after your busy season, ALL of which you can bring a guest to.

KPMG provides a lot of benefits from employment not necessarily offered elsewhere. They have the basics - fair pay and benefits, but also a lot of paid time off even as a first year associate. They offer a lot of training, which is something very few other firms are doing, and actually help the employee make time to attend the training they offer. The corporate culture is oriented very strongly toward community service, offering firm-sponsored activities as well as the flexibility to volunteer for things the individual employee finds important. In fact, they have an entire committee ("Involve") dedicated to these types of initiatives. Professionally, they also provide a very developed growth strategy, including help goal setting and working toward those goals. At KPMG you can really develop your own path and grow both professionally and personally with a lot of support.