Company: PwC
Date: 2021-03-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Typical Big 4 Experience
Pros: - Standard benefits and travel perks
- High quality talent at top of some Advisory Groups (but long lower tail distribution - see 'Cons')
- Decent work-life balance in some Advisory Groups (avoid M&A)
- Generous Holiday/PTO
- Generally, not many totally rude / unreasonable Partners/Managers
Cons: - Short-staffing leads to burnouts: Many top-heavy projects (multiple directors/partners but only 1 SA), partners latching onto high performers to cover for poor staffing model, long lower-tail talent distribution
- Poor MBA hiring: lower tier MBA talent (with a higher compensation than non-MBA)
- Avoid M&A at all costs: Consulting pay for finance-lite work hours, mostly to count heads