Company: PwC
Date: 2020-06-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Dubai office stopped paying salaries amid pandemic
Pros: Interesting consulting projects, competing with MBB in the region with high exposure to C-level and good wins against MBB. The culture was good just before the COVID19 pandemic, when it started deteriorating rapidly, particularly in CIPS BU.
Cons: Unfortunately, since a couple of months, Dubai Office started laying off people (through the  “low performance” approach), and they stopped paying salaries while saying that company is doing good!  (indirectly, through cutting in people’s leave balances, while asking people to continue delivering, which is something illegal in the UAE). This happened massively in the CIPS BU, and not in line with leadership guidelines (apparently). Instead, leadership can simply share the very bad situation of the company and ask employees for an effort.