Company: PwC
Date: 2021-05-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Core Assurance Review
Pros: 1) Might be a good brand to show in resume
2) Few good firm initiatives like pens down day (option to take off on a week day), combo off days, thank you bonus etc
Cons: 1) Too much favouritism and politics - practice of targeting an employee and screwing them is common.
2) Not able to utilise the benefits conferred by firm initiatives - Eg: Manager compels to work on a pens down day without allowing to take off, no compensatory off days allowed for the weekends/ holidays worked ( despite clear communication from the partnership that managers should allow team to take compensatory off)
3. Manager disturbs during odd hours at night ( after 11pm! even on saturdays and sundays) asking the status of work/ shouting at the team for meeting unnatural targets. This practice has become almost an everyday routine ever since work from home started.
4. If one single senior person in the team hates a person ( even if some personal grudge) , that persons name will be maligned infront of the whole team - too much backtalking and unprofessionalism.
5. Too much conservative people around
6. Worst cafetaria
7. No much prestigious clients - the firm survives mainly by undertaking shared service engagements from pwc counterparts abroad.
8. Forget weekends! Even to take half day off on a weekend, you need the mercy of your manager and convince him why you need half day off on a weekend.!
9. Some managers tend to interfere too much into the personal stuffs.