KPMG reviews

Work-life balance seems to be just lip service. Those that achieve work-life balance are rarely rewarded at review time. Those with no life and more than 100 percent utilization typically get much higher review ratings than those with families and kids that achieve respectable utilization. By that same token, Senior Managers or Directors that have work-life balance are perceived as lacking passion or being lazy by the partners. Senior Managers and Directors either move up or out after about 5 years because of this.

IT Directorship do not listen to employees at any level. The IT directors dont come from an IT background and hence make huge decisions regarding IT which are almost always bad. They totally refuse to communicate with senior managers in IT...... for some reason its not in their culture. There is a huge waste of money in the IT sector for little benefit. There is a constant reorg in IT which never seems to work. From the very senior level there is a finger pointing culture when things go inevitability wrong, hence the constant reorgs. The IT staff usually have to complete a lot of tasks undercover out of the view of the directorship. There is no hope of promotion for anyone that is IT or customer focused.