Company: PwC
Date: 2016-05-25
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great team, great place to start
Pros: PwC is a fantastic place to start your career. The firm has a wealth of resources to help you improve your long-term career prospects including great benefits and a willingness to pay for professional certifications. The work is challenging and fast-paced. At the associate level the staff is truly diverse, and motivated. You learn a lot in a short amount of time.

One thing the firm is doing right - is that it is finally starting to realize that the majority of its workforce is ma
Cons: If you want to succeed at this firm you have to give up work-life balance and a life outside of your work. Management can also be very subjective and bad at staffing - there is no equitable way of distributing long-term work. The work is sold at a low cost to the client without any regard for how much it actually costs the firm (time spent on doing the work). Associates are constantly eating hours to compete with each other for more work. If you don't eat hours and make the engagements or projects "profitable" based on how the firm calculates their internal metrics then you are evaluated poorly. Don't believe the hype on a flex schedule - flex just means that we're on all of the time, including weekends. 

The annual review process is condensed into a short one page document. The "snapshots" are also heavily biased towards the reviewer, and there is no day to day feedback.