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Anyone have Big 4 experience?

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vital

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I have an opportunity to interview for KPMG's IT Advisory practice and I told them I'd contact them if interested. What are your thoughts/opinions/experiences of working for a Big 4? The only good thing I heard about it is that it'll look really good on your resume.
 
Yes, it looks very good on your resume. If you have experience working with large companies, then the transition won't be difficult. Expect more challenging projects and more interfacing/interaction with employees. However, if you come from a small company, you might have difficulties adjusting to the large company culture and politics.
 
i've got big 4 experience. tomorrow is my last day with one of them. it looks great on your resume. make sure you stick it out at least 2-3 years.

depending on what your focus is, you see more depth at the big 4 while you get more breadth at a smaller firm. big 4's business model is designed to streamline the individuals. auditors work 95% of their time on audits and tax preparers work pretty much 100% of their time on returns. smaller firms require the individual to know pretty much everything or have access to someone that does.

both are great, but having big 4 on the resume can open some doors.
 
Well I know it's good for the resume if you're in finance/accounting and working towards a CPA... But what about an IT guy? Say a Big 4 vs Microsoft, Google or other high tech companies.

I work for a company with over 30k employees so the transition shouldn't be hard at all.
 
amish is right. Although I don't have Big 4 experience, at times I wish I had taken that route. I chose against it though because of the horror stories about the long hours and office politics.
 
It's hard to compare a Big 4 company with a lot of breadth across the industries with a technology firm focus on a specific area. If you are highly technical, you would gain great depth into a specific niche. However, that many not be useful once you are outside of that niche. On the other hand, at a Big 4 company, you would most likely work on many different projects. You would gain knowledge but probably not enough to become a guru. However, you will have exposure to lots of technologies and have proved your usefulness across multiple areas.
 
Originally posted by: vital
Well I know it's good for the resume if you're in finance/accounting and working towards a CPA... But what about an IT guy? Say a Big 4 vs Microsoft, Google or other high tech companies.

I work for a company with over 30k employees so the transition shouldn't be hard at all.
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It's good for an IT guy planning to be in the IT Audit field working towards a CISA or the Security field working towards CISSP or equivalent. If you want to be a Sys Admin, it wouldn't be a good choice. It depends on where you want to position yourself in the IT field.
 
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amish is right. Although I don't have Big 4 experience, at times I wish I had taken that route. I chose against it though because of the horror stories about the long hours and office politics.
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god that part sucked. i basically got hung out to dry and nobody above my position would talk to me. i'd ask if i need to do anything better and i'll i'd get back was, "you're doing fine." i don't think they knew or cared what i did for the last four months.
 

I don't have the experience, but my brother does.

He worked in the IT sector for PWC for 17 years (started as a coder and worked his way up to management), and he love the OT/perks that they offered.

KPMG offered a position to him during the IBM acquisition of PWC IT sector, but he turned it down because the offer wasn?t as sweet as staying with IBM. He is looking to get out of IBM since they took over because the benefit package & salary is much less than what he got with PWC.

Go for it because it will look good on paper.

<-- Also got an interviewed with KPMG years back but didn?t take the offer.

 
big 4/5 isn't as impressive as it used to be... i've been in SAP development for about 8 years and alot of the consultants we had on board were recruited fresh out of college and we could certainly tell.

currently, I'm being audited by 2 from E&Y - they don't know the first thing about the technology we use that they are auditing.

on the whole, I'd take the job - traveling on the corporate dime... tons of right out of college girl coworkers staying in strange cities away from home... plus, you'll get a good idea of where you want to live and make MANY contacts you can rely on when you want to settle down for a permanent job.

I, also, rec'd an offer from KPMG but turned them down.
 
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