Company: PwC
Date: 2015-06-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Beware Recruiting Lies
Pros: Great opportunities to interact with and network with high influence colleagues at the Firm and also at the clients. Exposure is significantly higher as a consultant than if you are employed by the clients directly.
Benefits of consulting are nice - expenses, happy hours, etc; as when you're generating revenue for your company they are more likely to treat you to these things.
Significant improvements have been made in the performance evaluation process and how employees are reviewed - less paperwork and more actual rating based on performance.
Cons: The Firm policy states that employees hired prior to the end of February are eligible for compensation increases (effective July 1) and bonus (paid ~October). Come June, I was informed that leadership made a decision to give zero increase or bonus to all employees who began after 1/1 in my practice (not Firm-wide). Deceiving recruiting and hiring practice.
Work/life balance can be rough at times, as working for clients can introduce a significantly higher level of urgency than working in industry.
Promotions are all politics. Could be a "Pro" if you consider yourself to be great at networking and "BS"ing, but beware that if you aren't at the top of the partners minds, you'll be glossed over.
Benefits suck, including 401k match - 25% of your contributions, capped at 1.5% if you contribute 6%