Company: PwC
Date: 2019-01-27
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

TOXIC CULTURE, NO PLACE TO SIT, NO PRIVACY OR RESPECT GIVEN TO STAFF
Pros: This is honestly the worst place I've ever worked and I've worked in 5 different industries including another accounting firm for over 3 years. 

I've never seen such a enormously toxic environment of misplaced egos and false senses of superiority combined with the typical cowardly, passive aggressive accounting-type.
Cons: - Use the term "collaborative" to actually mean "really overcrowded office space where people fight for seating everyday because no one has permanent desks"
- Culture - very juvenile and gossipy. Everyone knows about everything everyone does. No privacy due to cramped quarters.
- Hierarchical - juniors are treated lower than scum and not even given desk to work from and they are always in the office. (resorted to giving juniors rickety stools to just work from on the laps)
- Overcrowded office space due to cost saving efforts to release an entire floor and pack people in like sardines which is a fire hazard for a building zoned as an office
- Lack of transparency on review process - will get a coffee with your "coach" (i.e. your judgemental evaluator) and not discuss anything work-related and then they will try to say that was your year-end review meeting
- Bonus = inflation with strings attached - withheld bonuses junior staff had already earned unless they agreed to sign a contract promising to continue working there for 2 years. 
- Report to 8 different managers with 8 different working styles all at once very difficult learning environment 
- No accountability for VPs and Managers on inhumane treatment of staff 
- Huge culture of gender discrimination (a girls' work is scrutinized much more than a guys' work for typos, formatting, color schemes, 
- Girls are belittled  when working late "yeah she's probably just here for fun"