Company: PwC
Date: 2018-05-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

School Leaver Programme
Pros: - You get to work on some genuinely interesting and exciting projects with some of the largest companies in the world
- Plenty of opportunities to travel even at very junior level
- Exams and tuition paid for
Cons: - Expected to stay far beyond normal hours (not asked - expected). Some people are fine with this, others not; either way, you will spend numerous evenings in the office past 9pm. You are told you will get this time back but I never once saw this come to fruition.
- Thrown somewhat in the deep end work-wise; I was reviewing models with no knowledge of much of the accounting practices being applied. I raised this several times and was told this was normal, and that I wasn't expected to know everything, but (a) clients were paying large fees for my hours as an associate and (b) not understanding much of the work meant I was disengaged and disinterested in much of it.