Company: PwC
Date: 2019-04-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Undervalued, Hypocrisy, Lack of Management. AVOID OPERATE
Pros: None. Not a single one.
Cons: -	If offered a job. REJECT. 

-	Aim High 2020 is a joke. Attended a half day seminar to explain mission statement ‘Aim High’. Sat listening to Brian O’Driscoll for 3 hours and came away none the wiser as to what we were aiming for. A grand slam we all joked. 

-	Operate is a failing business, I put down to management (more follows). PwC are crimping employee benefits and restricting expenses. Namely due to losing contacts and trying to save money to maintain year on year ‘growth’. 

-	Rapid expansion has created a team in excess of 1000. Most of the time you won’t be on a project you will be on the ‘bench’. Which used to be an actual bench but now if you’re lucky represents a hot desk if you can find one. 

-	No structure in company. Never told how long your project or engagement will last, where you will go next. Impossible to plan your own personal life. Very lonely existence will follow acceptance of a job offer. 

-	No professional training opportunities outside of Prince2. No progression opportunities or ability to transfer to other parts of PwC or other office locations. Complete lack of flexibility. 

-	If you are based away from your base office you will be placed into accommodation, sharing with someone you have never met. This accommodation will be changed often so DO NOT get comfortable. 

-	Management team who can’t organise anything. They will regularly ask for repeated information such as your Mobile number despite the management sitting next to each other and it being available on your employee profile and signature. Note: This is a work mobile number THEY gave me and has happened to numerous people on my project.  

-	No expense structure when working away from base office. Have to guess. Sometimes they get approved sometimes they do not. Asked a PwC manager for the expense policy twice and got laughed at. 

-	No training provided. Spent two days in office before being shipped to client site. After 2 years yet to hear from the office. You become a number and nothing more. 

-	Performance reviews every 6 months is a joke. The form required to be filled out every 6 months constantly changes. Performance review is based off a senior associate’s 3 minute pitch to management about what you have done. This could be despite you having never worked with them or met them. Asinine.
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-	My first performance review was after 8 months due to joining cycle. At this review they believed I had been in the company one month. And received no remuneration increase. When I explained it was 8 months the balked and looked sheepishly into their papers. I was promoted on the next cycle despite doing nothing additional or different. Feel this was out of embarrassment. 

-	New ‘Gems’ system was introduced recently to award your colleagues. No one uses it and those who do have reciprocal agreements to earn themselves an extra fiver every month.  

-	Pay is arbitrarily set. There is no structure to who is paid what in this company. If you are liked / known and try to leave they will try and offer you money to stay, never addressing your grievances or reasons for wanting to leave. 

-	The quitting process was laughable. Resigned online (through portal), emailed two managers and thought I was done. Contacted by two different managers (remember they all sit together in the same office) asking what it is I do, where I am located and what project I am on. This is after TWO years of being on said project and going through three supposed performance reviews. I then had to fill out a spreadsheet listing what task I perform on a daily basis so they can try and arrange a replacement.