Company: PwC
Date: 2014-04-02
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Many career opportunities
Pros: Firm leadership is addressing significant pain points within the business (inefficiencies, work/life balance, technology hurdles, etc.).  Trying to improve things, although many initiatives take a while to "trickle down" to a staff level.  Promotions and salary increases happen fairly frequently - with yearly bumps to salary ranging from 5-10%.  You have the ability to steer your career in many different directions after the first year or so (which you should spend proving your value!).  I very much like working for PwC.
Cons: Long hours.  Long hours.  Long hours.  It can be tough and tedious work.  Depending on the market in which you work, you may not get much down time at any point during the year.  I know friends in my market that have ended up working 6 or more "busy seasons" or year-ends in one year, due to not-for-profits and other companies that may not have a 12/31 year end.  There aren't too many politics within the firm internally, but there is a lot of red tape to navigate from regulators such as the PCAOB.  This is what ends up causing a lot of the tedium in day to day work.