Company: PwC
Date: 2014-09-28
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Assurance Associate
Pros: Dynamic, talented co-workers in a welcoming atmosphere.  It was exciting to work with high-profile, industry leading clients.  It can be a very hard job because of the hours and deadlines, but incredibly interesting and great place to start your career if you know how to play the game and stay flexible.
Cons: Everyone's experience varies...Either through random initial assignments, or by actively managing your career, you could be on a team with reasonable hours and treated with respect, while 80% of the other teams in that industry group  could expect to always be on call, to have hours, assignments, and work sites changing constantly, and would have to indulge in their worst vices in order to cope with unreasonable hours and poor interpersonal management.  You have to  network constantly to ensure you can work on teams which will broaden your skill set, and more importantly, build relationships with higher level co-workers with a similar work style/ethic or you are cannon fodder.