Company: PwC
Date: 2019-06-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

No vision. Just politics and unfairness.
Pros: It’s a flexible and not really demanding work environment.
Cons: Although they pretend to be a law firm, they are not and will never be one. They don’t have the attitude and the skills to work like proper lawyers. The promotion and rewards process is very unfair, as it is the allocation of work (which is why we now have a ‘fair access to work’ policy - not really working tho). As a lawyer, you have no supervision or mentoring; nor particularly outstanding legal people able to inspire you. There is a strong hierarchy only based on how long you’ve been in the firm or how long you’ve known the partner (in the latter case, you could have been charging 45 hours in 7 months and still get promoted to senior manager). The bonuses and salaries are way far from being in line with the market rate (for example, mine has been less than 2K this year which is way less than what I’ve been told I would have earned when u joined, 10/15%). In addition, there is a huge pay gap between legally and non-legally qualified people in teams which is then not taken into account in the rates payed by clients - which is highly unfair both for the clients and the non-legally qualifies colleagues themselves. Lastly, the management (both the team partner and the BU partner) have proven not to be able to adjust their strategy to the market: after a year of struggles, they still haven’t done anything to make this right and generate (finally) revenues - unless overexposing themselves (and oversharing) on LinkedIn.