Company: PwC
Date: 2019-04-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A mixed bag but ultimately don't waste your life here
Pros: -It is a training ground, treat it as a university, especially if you're young, you want to be here long enough to get the experience and name recognition but leave before they completely suck the soul out of you. 

-Working environment will be stressful, but mostly because of the people not the tasks itself. 

- They have good perks and pay, you get a lot of reimbursed for all firm expenses

-You will learn a lot about business, sort of, not business strategy, just how business is run on a basic level, enough for you to be interesting at cocktail parties, not that you will be going for any and not that you could even speak about it due to confidentiality. 

-You will learn about working in a corporate environment, dealing with awful human beings and abject liars, and finding the occasional gem, although don't drink too much of their Kool aid.
Cons: -Working hours are sh!t
-Middle management is sh!t, no oversight over their actions, so they do as they please
-Favouritism is the order of the day, do not show up at any PwC branch with the misconception that it is a merit based environment. All that talk of "networking" in the beginning just masks the favouritism, be prepared to Brown nose if this is where you want to spend a good chunk of your life and youth.
-"Working life balance" is more like "Work is life balance"

-Difficult to make actual friends so don't expect it, everyone is a colleague, leave it at that, do your job, move on.
-If you stay longer than senior associate, they will dangle the carrot of "promotion" long enough in your face but if you realise your overlords aren't letting you have that carrot, consider it time to leave (up and out).
-Prepare to be underpaid after senior associate. underpaid for years. if that sounds like you, welcome

-Do believe just because you can wear neon sneakers to work you're no longer just a number. To these people you will always be just a number. they see people like you come and go all the time. Don't be surprised if you meet a partner and they don't ask you your name...they don't care, its of no use to them. until you rise to manager, you may not even be human in their eyes. Just a tool, akin to a hammer or a screwdriver