Company: PwC
Date: 2021-03-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Good first job
Pros: 1. Easy entry to associate level roles especially if you come from campus recruitment. 
2. Great reality check on getting used to the number of hours people work in accounting/finance as you’ll be working 9-3am at least a few times a year (which is normal even on the client side). It’s just the nature of this actg field. 
3. Culture is great. Everyone is on board with the millennial corporate culture. No one will ever embarrass you or others for being bad at your job. Overall, everyone is very nice and willing to help. Even if they truly don’t want to help, everyone is obligated to help because it’s just the culture at this firm. 
4. Flexibility - the transfer process is super easy if you know the right people. I’ve been able to work in different service lines as a result. 
5. Promotion is pretty much guaranteed and timeline based. You put in the number of years and you’ll get it. You wouldn’t be held back from a promotion unless people absolutely hate you or you’re so bad at the job that you literally can’t be promoted. From what I’ve seen, you can be average and still get promoted even at the manager level. It’s all a seniority game at the end of the day.
Cons: 1. The firm constantly tries to adopt new changes which creates inefficiencies and zero value add. It all seems more for marketing purposes than for actual enhancements to the day to day job. 
2. Too many firm initiatives that are just for show rather than practice. For example, “be well work well, stop the grind” slogan has been tossed around the firm for the last year or so but I haven’t seen anyone actually “stop the grind.” People are consistently working every minute of the day and will get pings during their vacation time. It’s just the nature of the job as this is a client service field. 
3. I don’t think the work necessarily translates well into industry as this is a client service field where companies come here to buy specific services that they do not want to do or have enough human bodies to crank out. The longer you stay the harder it will be to exit this field unless you’re set you want to be here for 10+ years (which might not be bad).