Company: PwC
Date: 2016-09-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Who wants to sit in chair for 12+ hours a day...
Pros: - competitive salary/benefits
- inclusive culture (there isn't a stereotype or "mold" here), highly diverse work groups
Cons: **please note, i work in New York and I've heard from several employees that the culture and work/life balance here can be drastically different compared to other offices
- if you are good at your job, you are pulled onto as many clients/projects as your director or manager can possibly add to your schedule ..  This may sound like a good thing but I constantly feel like I'm being punished for doing a good job as I see others log off at 8 while I'm stuck in the office until 1am.  I know you're thinking that these situations will settle themselves in performance years.  However, burnout is very real.  And you could be stuck working like this for a year or longer until you see how your hard work is paying off compared to others.  
- related to the comment above, in my experience, the firm does not do a good job of hiring or managing (associate level) employees.  Half of the people are some of the smartest, most talented people I've had the pleasure of working with.  The other half...... not so much.  You will end up picking up the slack for them over and over again.
- Partners keep selling more and more work to clients but don't have the staff to support it which makes your work/life balance increasingly nonexistent.  I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten asking to refer literally anybody who might want to work at PwC.
- bizarre culture where almost all employees at associate level (or sometimes above) consistently talk about how much they want to quit or when they are going to quit