Company: PwC
Date: 2014-05-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great opportunities in Risk Consulting, new emphasis on increasing revenue at all costs (at least in Canada).
Pros: Great opportunities to learn new industries and new things; 
possibly very interesting projects; 
access to best practices, mostly from the US and Europe;
variety of clients, hence connections; 
very talented and motivated colleagues, well, for the most part; 
international and domestic travel,
recognizable brand.
Cons: Increasing revenue at all costs became priority #1 in around 2012. This somewhat changed the culture. The pressure to hit new higher (not always realistic) targets translated into fear, political games, back stabbing and treating people like dirt at times.

You are expected to learn things on your own. Formal training is rudimental at best. 

Choice of engagements in Risk is becoming smaller. Mostly Internal Audit varieties which do not require extraordinary mental abilities. I don't mean to offend internal auditors but IA is not the reason why most of us went into consulting. To be booked on a good project, you have to jump through some hoops, constantly network with Directors and do a little begging.

Hours can be terrible but it is normal for consulting. Forget about work-life balance. It is a myth.

Salary is on par with other Big 4 firms but far below of what strategy consulting firms, banks, mining and companies from pretty much any other industry offer.