Company: PwC
Date: 2018-11-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Manager
Pros: 1) Quality of people
2) Breadth of services provided across lines of service
3) Investment in people’s training and learning
4) Largely collaborative culture
5) Sensitivity to people’s work-life balance (not always guaranteed due to the nature of the business, but leadership tries to accommodate wherever possible.)
Cons: 1) Culture is very specific to each practice (like most large consulting firms)
2) In Advisory, the practices are very divided by industry vertical (IPS, FS, CM, HIA, etc.). Each vertical runs the business it’s own way, hurting resource and knowledge sharing. This also hurts promotion opportunities because you can only get promoted within your vertical.
3) Even in Technology Consulting, there is a lot of (too much, I would say) emphasis on business transformation. While it is not wrong, the business focus tends to overshadow the technology part, and make it appear like technology capabilities are taken for granted. This hurts the prospects of professionals with technology background.