KPMG reviews

The biggest challenge for me is work/life balance. Hours are unpredictable, meaning you start at 8:30 or 9 and you don't know when the end is...And prepare to work at weekends. If you are single and live close to the office, you probably would be more tolerable with the hours. But for people who have family and live in the suburbs, it gets really tough. Working environment is not good: no private cube. People sit, work, eat and have calls in the same conference room. It is a mess...Not comfortable at all. I sometimes feel I am a slave in the room and have to tolerate with people's constant talks unrelated to work. Overall salary is OK. But given the long hours, the hourly pay is really low...

70 hour weeks; zero comp time offered. No work / life balance. On-call is horrendous when it is your week, which is somewhat acceptable in this field, but never a single hour of comp-time offered by mgmt, which was unacceptable. It ruined my personal and family life, so I quit before it killed me. The bonus was only ~1.5 percent, which also did not make up for the excessive work-load. My particular leader who was in Montvale, New Jersey...she would often yell at me over phone loud enough that my co-workers could hear her over the handset; I should have turned her into HR, but regret I never did. One example was I worked an issue all night long going to bed 4am. I emailed team I was going to sleep in and work from home when I woke up, then immediately was chastised for not driving downtown and being "onsite and at my desk" by 9am. This was the final straw. $5 per day to park in Downtown St. Louis. Recruiter and middle mgmt offered me to work-from-home 1-2 days per week prior to accepting job, but once hired, they reneged and I was only able to do so 1 day per week, even though I had those details in writing. Bed-checks were also daily ritual by my leader. One Friday, after working 60-hour week, my co-worker said he'd had enough for one week and was going home. I said "me too". It was not 10 minutes later that we both received an email asking our where-abouts, as M/S LYNC showed our laptops as being "disconnected". This was followed by text. This is not acceptable in any setting, definitely not a professional I.T. setting....and reminded be of back when we were in Kindergarten. I observed that KPMG is a decent company, and K-Tech certainly has some good teams to work for in the St. Louis office, but I would run as fast as you can from the Oracle DBA / SQL Server team, unless you are homeless and need a job.