Company: PwC
Date: 2019-05-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

PwC SDC - Bangalore (EGL)
Pros: 1.Flexible timings (Use this wisely to learn new tech stuff by yourself since you won't be learning much on the job).

2. Shift allowance along with free cab facility if you are in a shift.
Cons: 1. You may have been hired for one skill but it's very likely you will be asked to work on something else once you join the firm. I was hired for a particular tool and in the years I worked there I never used that tool ever again.

2. Technical work done is mostly menial in nature. If you get a project where you get good mentors,can learn new tech stuff and grow technically,consider yourself lucky.

3. Many projects are short duration ones and there's not enough time to pick up a new tool or programming language and feel that you are actually competent in it.You might be able to deliver the project by researching online in that short span of time but you won't really be learning a lot and very likely you won't ever be working on that same tech/tool/domain again as they will try to immediately put you in the next project which has resource slots available even if you are not the ideal candidate for the role.

4. With the exception of 1/2 managers who have a decent reputation of being technically competent most of the other managers are quite dumb and have made  their way up the career ladder by sucking up to the higher ups. So,if you go to them with your problems or are looking for some assistance you won't be getting any or, they will just brush it off with  vague or stupid suggestions.

5. Promotions and increments are mostly based on how good you have been at flattery of your managers. Dec/Jan you will have a spate of emails from  promotion aspirants about what they have accomplished or, are working on or emails with documents/ppts on tech stuff (mostly copied from the internet). I still remember a  set of ppts shared by a resource with around 10/11 years of experience on "Integration Testing". It was stuff which even a resource with 2 years of work experience would know and the entire content was easily available on the net. So,you get the idea, you just need to make it look like you have been doing extra stuff beyond your project work even if the stuff you share is utter baloney.

6. If you are not good at sucking up to higher ups but are good at your work you might still get passed over for promotion (The rule here is - You have to approach your coach/relationship leader and explicitly request for a promotion and if you still don't see them committing to getting you promoted then you might as well give them a hint that you would have to think of other opportunities elsewhere. If that doesn't do the trick nothing else will so,maybe you should indeed leave).

7. I have personally experienced others taking credit for my work in their meetings with senior management.

8. They have this Coach/Relationship Leader  structure but in my time there I have had very minimal interaction with either of my coach or relationship lead. Many a time you try to catch hold of them to discuss about your career etc but they seem to be busy with meetings(and just some time later you see them in cafetaria with their cronies).