Company: PwC
Date: 2018-04-16
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Typical consulting firm experience - both good and bad
Pros: +Above average benefits, mostly targeting millennials.  Highlights include jeans dress code, decent PTO, parental leave, and corp discounts
+The firm preaches an inclusive work environment
+This is a large accounting firm, after all, so there are endless tracking metrics to document success
+Technology support is above average.  The firm is invested in making your life efficient (thus making more $$).
+In most teams, you will be working with some amazing people.
Cons: -Like some consulting firms, partners have free reign to terrorize people they don't like.  This includes creating a hostile work environment where bullying and malicious gossip is encouraged.  I've seen this play out with smaller boutique consulting firms but it's unfortunate that it can happen at a Big 4.  If the partner in question brings in $$, you can forget about HR or anyone else stepping in.  Your best bet is to either switch groups or leave.  
-This is not a good place for experienced hires, particularly those with > 10 years of industry experience.  Unless you can use the industry experience to sell work, you will be reduced to whatever technical skill(s) you have.  Meaning, if you are a nurse with 20 years of clinical exp and good Excel skills, you will be cranking out Excel sheets with the rest of the college kids.  
-Some internal firm initiatives are a joke.  The Tour of Duty option, for example.  It's touted as a temporary transfer program for consultants to gain experience with another group, build their brand/network, then come back to the team.  Sounds great, doesn't it?  Well, everyone who applies for a ToD is flagged as wanting to jump to another team and their relationship partner is notified.  
-Real-time feedback - another program that sounded great on paper but actual results are inconsistent at best.  Here's an idea - take away anonymous upward feedback and just have everyone tell each other what they really think.  It's fine if there were protections against retaliation, but none exist.  Strategy& does a much better job with feedback - kudos to them.