Company: PwC
Date: 2019-03-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sale Sale Sale!
Pros: Flexible working location.  You can work from home, office, or at client sites.
Cons: For starters, I have been with PwC for a few months and I’m looking to resign. From the get go, the recruiting process was dishonest. The recruiter told me that a typical performing bonus for a Director was between 30-35%. After getting onboard and talking to other Directors, I found out that they are actually getting 10% to 20% per year. 

The firm is heavily focused on business development. If you are from the industry and looking to go into consulting, make sure that salesmanship is in your DNA. At PwC, you will be rated on your work but more heavily on your business development IQ. 

Some services within the firm are not established and the Partners are all about selling. For example, Partners will try to sell service A without having a procedure or process established to deliver it. They will talk up service A to the client and once the client signs the contract, the Partners will turn to the Directors and ask them to deliver it. I can’t tell you enough how many times this has happened to me in just a short period of time working at PwC. Also, the quality of the work is not the work itself but it is in your presentations and shiny reports. 

The biggest problem I have with PwC is that they do not focus on developing their staff and services. PwC look for employees to train each other which could get very political as you move up in the company. I have seen associates doing a great job at cross training each other, however, at the Director level, it is a different story. Most Directors are jockeying to become the next Partner, so getting genuine help is hard to come by. 

Best of luck if you are coming to PwC!