Company: PwC
Date: 2014-01-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Disgusting, worst place I have ever worked, stay far away
Pros: The nice, honest and hard working people struggle to survive in this firm. They are the reason the firm does well, but when it comes to promotions, it is entirely based on how much your manager likes you. If you have the misfortune of being stuck with a manager that doesn't then good luck getting promoted. 
To all the hardworking high achievers looking to apply here - do yourself a favour and please go work elsewhere! Do not waste your talent and potential working for this organisation.
Cons: Absolutely discriminatory appraisal and promotion system. Performance can be entirely based one person's view of you, and if they have something against you then they will try to convince everyone else you are not good enough. If you worked for one particular team in tax, you would never get promoted because the head of that team doesnt like to promote juniors. .

The team director/ manager will then try to convince you that this is because your performance is not good enough when in reality you ARE performing well - year after year, they pass up the juniors in their team for promotions because they dont want to pay you a higher salary.

The flipside of this is that those being promoted are getting a false sense of achievement, when in reality all thats getting them promoted is favoritism, not good hard work and client satisfaction.