Company: PwC
Date: 2017-05-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Corporate sweatshop
Pros: Many industry employers appreciate that if you can survive a few years at PwC, then you can survive long hours, low pay and are prepared to sell your soul.
Cons: As with many reviews on here I would single out Partner/Director bullying and as a significant problem. Partners are uninspiring sales people from a bygone error, so don’t expect to learn anything new. High pressure environment where politics smothers talent and lateral thinking. Work/life balance is more ‘live-to-work’ and working evenings, weekends and sacrificing your personal life is an expectation – the actual hourly pay rate is depressing. HR recruitment campaign propaganda paints over hierarchical ‘churn and burn’ high-turnover culture with false promises of ‘flexible working’, ‘flat structure’, ‘health and wellbeing’ and ‘personal development’. Actively practices pyramid scheme vitality curve for annual elimination of the bottom 10-20% no matter how well you perform. PwC values are fascicle, purely HR mechanism to discard unwanted human capital.