Company: PwC
Date: 2021-03-02
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

The people is what makes or breaks your experience
Pros: There's tons of opportunities for global mobility given the expansive reach of the firm. Mobility is fairly easy. However, you cannot leave mobility decisions and timing to HR at all or to a career coach that's passive. If you want to move around and try different things you have to be willing to reach out to people yourself and take charge of it.
Cons: Too much work year round. I really hate the staffing model. People are literally looked at like a block of hours in a day. It's really off putting that they treat people like machine hours that you can just plant from one place to another. Their rationale being that all PwC employees are the same because they go through the same trainings. However they forget that there's other human elements to it like people's learning curve. Everyone's personal capacity and intelligence. Their thought process certainly doesn't mirror the fact that if we were all the same, their system of bucketing people by performance makes zero sense at all. Then everyone should be compensated equally at each level. So HR needs to make up their mind. You can't pick both.