Disappointed - Anonymous employee KPMG Employee Review

1.0
Mar 25, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The culture of the firm is wonderful, the benefits are really attractive (days off, work arrangement, summer fridays, perks, etc) if only the benefits could be fairly enforced through all departments...

Cons

With extensive prior experience of working within a corporate environment, I have never seen the amount of inconsistency that is experienced throughout the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement department. The department is so top heavy that the associates to manager positions are being spread so thin with little to no regards from upper management. Leadership does not delegate the department resources properly which in turn forces the lower levels to pick up the slack of upper managements poor project planning and work more hours/ on weekends for truly nothing; no recognition, no acknowledgment and definitely no promotions or raises to the people that deserve it. Leadership did not even follow up with employees performance leaders to find out how they were doing at year end, therefore no one received proper promotions/raises since the funds were allocated to whom upper management thought "deserved" it. They barely treat the lower level employees with dignity and respect, let alone allow the team the privileges allocated to employees at KPMG. There is absolutely no growth or future under SSP current management. I’ve never been apart of such a toxic, condescending environment where everyone is waiting to be fired since that’s all management is good at enforcing; the bottom level employees are all “replaceable”. They do not care to make their employees happy or let their employees enjoy KPMG privileges!! Management thinks that this is a dictatorship and that they can pick and choose which firm perks the department can utilize (such a work from home, alternate work arrangements, volunteering, etc. ) It's a sick power move. Upper management of this department does not believe that KPMG is a progressive firm (in which KPMG PRIDES itself on) and they do not trust their employees at all. No employee would consider top level managers as leadership as they do not LEAD, they force upon us what they want and do WHATEVER they want. You have the top manager being bicoastal 2 weeks out of every month and over seas for non-work purposes about 3 weeks, yet will not allow lower level employees to benefit from the alternative work arrangement (they want to implement only 1 day a month per employee, how is that LEADING your team?! you're MICROMANAGING!) Mind you, we are in 2019; the outdated mindset of a 9-5 has been replaced YEARS ago and if KPMG wants to keep employee satisfaction high (and have a decent employee satisfaction survey), I recommend that SSP should implement the alternate work arrangement to their employee like every other department in KPMG has.

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