Company: PwC
Date: 2017-01-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good place to start but not to stay
Pros: There is not nearly as much pressure or stress that one would face at a core pwc office. If you choose to, you can balance your work life and personal life fairly efficiently here. Everyone in the office is fairly friendly and helpful.
Cons: Over emphasis on internal projects. In addition, there is no real opportunity to stay here since the highest position you can reach here is senior associate. As mentioned before, the MD (norm) can be a bit difficult to engage. He tends to talk over you when you set up Touchpoint meetings. 

Biggest problem I see here is that management generally has very little clue over what is going on with their employees on the engagement level. I think they need to be more proactive rather than waiting for employees to inform them of what's going on. I also have no idea of what the competency leads actually do. Seems like a fairly meaningless role other than or.

Bottom line is put your two years in here because it's a good place to start or restart your career. After that, transfer to a core office which will substantially pay you more and have more opportunities to be promoted. Or go for another job. The pay at csdc can't compete with core offices or other jobs unless you're willing to wait a very long time.