KPMG India Assistant Manager Kolkata Reviews

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Nothing is good here, everything js toxic

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Everything is bad, non supportive ecosystem

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One of the best company to work for.

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Nothing as such

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Nothing too fancy. All ok.

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Not much promotion or fast tracked growth

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

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Everything thing is fine here

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Nothing as such

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Adversity is the best teacher - so learnings on both technical and interpersonal skills is great considering the maze of barriers that need to be addressed to get the work done, without unnecessarily antagonising someone.

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Experiences are specific to the India Government practice: 1. Perpetual resource crunch: You are expected to get everything (from proposals, deliverables, risk procedures, invoicing, payment follow-ups) without any supporting resource. You are expected to gather that yourself as well 2. Don't really know where all the money goes - pretty pedestal increments given the work burdens (situation might have changed post COVID) 3. Cooperation between business heads seemed pretty limited - there were more high level fights on who will bid than cooperative work. What it led to was the work already completed (often done over weekends) went down to the drain. Views expressed are personal and can differ with others. Would be glad if the differing views are positive....Read More

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

The KPMG experience is very team specific. Since I was part of a small team I had the opportunity to learn a lot from administrative/managerial elements to technical work.

Dislikes

The steep learning curve was accompanied with a lack of work life balance. But worse was a general apathy of leadership regarding employee welfare. Salary was not commensurate to the range of activities accomplished. Also there is limited growth opportunity from knowledge perspective - Manager onwards it's only about targets, elbow room to try out other areas is very limited. Result is a rather toxic environ and a more sales like orientation than a knowledge oriented one....Read More

Work Details

You are expected to 'manage' everything with ever dwindling resources - not really an enviable work life.

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, International Travel.