Company: PwC
Date: 2018-08-13
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Really expensive health care plans
Pros: big company, lots of growth opportunity (if you stick to them long enough). Above average pay.
Cons: highly political with no clear (and committed) path for growth. Keep hanging the "partnership" reward as a carrot which rarely materializes despite promises.  Awful health plans - they shifted to High Deductible (HDHP) plans with ridiculous premiums. For a 2 person household with moderate health care needs, you can expect to pay between $700-$1000 in monthly premiums + a $10K deductible. So essentially you're paying ~12K in premiums and another 10K in medical costs before the insurance pays for anything. I envy my peers in other companies where premiums at 100% employer paid and at most they have a $20 co-pay. This kind of poor health care coverage in California is especially surprising, as they are surrounded by companies who bend over backwards for employees on this account. Their plans also don't cover any alternative therapies like Ayurveda, Functional Medicine or TCM - only acupuncture.
Many of my colleagues with kids have actually left the company primarily because the health care costs were simply too high with PWC.
Also, no office lunches, no breakfasts, no free perks of that kind at all.