Company: PwC
Date: 2020-11-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Great for the CV
Pros: Work with some very intelligent people, and exposed to some great clients. Really good place to hone skills, and try to do things differently (design, bespoke websites for client proposals etc). Good salary if you are in the early stages of your career (2-4 years of proposal experience).
Cons: Also, the structure of the proposal team leaves a lot to be desired. You report into Sales and Marketing, however, you are assigned a line of service to work for. There is a lot of noise created in amongst the Sales and Marketing org, where internal projects which offer little to no value to the business require almost 50% of your working time (this is expected). Career progression internally is not clear, with many people leaving the organisation to further themselves. If people do stay, they tend to move into account manager roles, however, these roles at PWC involved liasing with a customers procurement team, and setting up meetings between partners and the c-suite (who you never get access to).
A real issue of diversity within the organisation too. The proposal team has no BAME representation in any management positions.
Also, have been told that one particular line of service is best avoided with bullying rife in it, so do ask about working conditions/ relationships with the key line of service stakeholders if you interview.