Company: PwC
Date: 2014-02-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good firm with lots of resources and a good culture
Pros: Overall leadership is heading in the right direction; good culture supporting work life balance and flexibility; large firm with many resources; recent acquisitions of Diamond, PRTM, and Booz are bringing needed talent; advisory is growth oriented so many changes are on the way; relationship-driven culture so people are taught to put relationships first
Cons: Large, inpersonal firm, can be disconnected, internal firm support is bureaucratic and ineffective; promotion system is non-transparent and disconnected from day to day work; performance review processes are tedious and do not lend to honest constructive feedback; engagement staffing coordinated by firm HR support is dysfuntional, and staffing operates on personal network rather than identified business needs; staffing tend to determine career growth rather than personal strengths/interests/passions; evolving consulting practice so operating model and competencies are not defined; lower pay for consulting roles compared to industry peers; over-emphasis on "relationship" building creates subcultures of cronyism and favoritism