In Malaysia, the general perception of rankings among the Big 4 is somewhat like this.

01. PWC
02. EY
03. KPMG (I used to work in International Executive Services Dept aka personal tax for expatriates before leaving on 31/08/2005 for better job)
04. DKC

Not sure how they came up with the rankings. I just heard it from many people. Must be a reputation thing.

KPMG pays fresh grads RM2,100 per month (that's the revised rate as at 01/01/2005). Before revision was RM2,000. Not sure if anymore revision made to fresh grad pay on 01/01/2006.

Working in public accounting firm as a first job is preferable not only because of job experience and prestige but also because of the extremely high level of pressure and stress it piles on you (you don't set deadline. Your clients and the Government do. So it's meeting the deadline by hook or by crook even if you have to camp in the office overnight). Once you join the manufacturing sector, you'll feel like the whole world has been taken off your shoulder. You'll feel job satisfaction by the bucketloads too.

This post has been edited by Dias: May 7 2006, 02:01 PM