Company: PwC
Date: 2019-11-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

A nightmare of monumental proportions
Pros: In theory seeing the inside workings of many clients is a great experience. 

Pay is fair but not fantastic. Be weary of huge sign up bonuses as there is a 2 year clawback. Not unfair but something to be aware of. 

PwC is still a great name on a resume because people don't really know how ridiculous it is or how useless these projects really are.
Cons: I've been in bay area tech for many years and I've seen a lot of bad workplaces but perhaps none so awful as PwC.

PwC is a well operationalized  leach syphoning funds from struggling tech companies and grinding it's employees into collapse through malicious compliance and abusive management in a froth mouthed scramble for billable hours. 

Lets go over the key points:

- Absurd work hours....working a 15,18  or even 24 hour day now and then is tolerable. Work hard play hard. Regularly working 48-72 hours without sleep or food because you have to be on calls none stop with someone somewhere in the world gets old fast.  This isn't even for a major release or software development sometimes you kill yourself just so partner can see a deck before their morning coffee! On weekends? Better be on call to service the whims of the partner. Holidays? Who knows.  Oh but its ok there's of "social" events that you will never actually have the bandwidth to attend.

-Abusive management - Theres a high quality expectation and that's great but screaming and  berating employees to tears over a missing comma in a 50 slide deck is absurd.  Partner level management doesn't have leadership skills or any way incentivize performance, it's just a battle of who can yell the loudest. 

-Antiquated systems and processes - Payroll can't manage to pay you during your first month of employment. For semi monthly employees you may have to wait until your third pay period.  Regardless of your finances going unpaid for a month is a joke and something I've never come across at companies small or large.