Company: PwC
Date: 2021-03-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Culture problems
Pros: - Can work from home.
- Good benefits package.
Cons: - So siloed, hierarchical, and automated that it's impossible sometimes to find a solution to a problem. Higher level employees act like stingy gatekeepers of information and will even block you from achieving your goals if they feel threatened. 
- Constant IT issues that can take months to resolve.
- Casual sexism still rampant. If you are a woman, especially a minority woman, expect your ideas and work to be stolen and used by a peer or manager. If you have technical knowledge and expertise, it will be ignored because you don't look the part (male). 
- Very few growth opportunities for IFS. You will be expected to stay in your box. If any growth is discussed, it will be a strict line within your group. (So for example, if you're an admin but learned how to write Python, you still won't be encouraged to find a role outside of admin or, rarely, admin-management.) Bias comes into play here as well. Men in lower-level roles seem to be encouraged to branch out more than women are.
- Class and role bias very prevalent. You're judged by your title and not by what you can do. Higher level employees can be very abusive and they are rarely punished.
- The way bonuses and raises are distributed causes people to be very competitive, insecure, and scheming. Some behave unethically. 
-Leadership keeps critical information secret and feeds us untrue, carefully crafted lines to keep us complacent. 
- The firm values are virtue signalling, not of actual importance to the firm.
- Very "do as I say, not as I do."
- No mentoring system.
- Partners vote against their own interests and then complain and abuse employees when the changes they voted for take place.