Company: PwC
Date: 2017-04-20
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior Consultant
Pros: Great learning experience. It definitely showed me what wrong looks like. I wouldn't have my current, much more lucrative job without those three letters on my resume.
Cons: For people looking for a quick opinion, I will sum up everything in four words: "No Hopes. No Dreams."

Where to start. OK. So I was at PwC Public Sector Practice. This organization as a whole has some really cool projects. However, I was a DoD Consultant with the National Security Practice. If you are reading this right now and considering a job with PwC NSP NSP... RUN. Do not accept the offer letter. the leadership is horrifying. The culture is the most toxic I have ever seen. They don't win any work. They talk abotu career mobility and how well you will do if you stay, but no one gets raises. No one gets bonuses. No one gets promotions. They do, but they are garbage and do not keep up with career growth elsewhere. You will get sucked into a black hole where you are told that you are lucky to work there while you have your life sucked from your soul. Your job will be threatened after your first month there. You will not be able to approach managers and directors and the partners and MDs (Minus one partner and one MD) are not approachable whatsoever. The partners will not remember your name. So remember that when you are trying to get promoted. Your utilization director will come up with reasons why your utilization needs to be higher, even though you will hit all of your goals. I can promise your partner, director and manager will not take an active interest in your career. You will not get constructive feedback, ever, and your snapshots will be garbage. You will single handedly run a project and be responsible for a project's success and will still get a garbage snapshot. They are super broke, so you are not allowed to do any of the cool PwC events or learning opportunities around the country or world. Again, they are broke, so no dinners or happy hours. Unless you are working on a proposal till midnight, you might get Chinese paid for. Or if you are working on a proposal Saturday and Sunday you might get one of the lunches paid for. Maybe. Then, you can write most of the proposal and if it wins (Which rarely happens), you will not get a bonus. You will get a $50 Amazon gift card and told how lucky you are to have been part of the effort. You will also get told that you can eat what you kill... but that's not true wither unless you fit in an LCAT on the proposal you are working. I honestly don't know a single person who started when I did that still works there if that tells you anything. If you are lookign at a job here for the pay raise and the prestige of PwC.... Be careful and good luck. I honestly would be making more and further along in my career had I avoided this place altogether. 

So again, to sum it up in four words, "No Hopes. No dreams."