Company: PwC
Date: 2014-08-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Learned a lot, moved on
Pros: I got to work with a number of great people, I learned a lot, and I was able to take advantage of some of the unique benefits.
Cons: For as much as PwC beats the "flexibility" and "work/life balance" drum, they still have a lot of work to do.  To be sure,  there were numerous positive examples (new mothers being allowed to switch to part-time, ability to work from home at certain times, etc.).  However, when my local office was slow on work, employees were often shipped across the country for periods of anywhere between a couple months and a year.  When giving these assignments, my experience was that HR was dishonest about the length of the assignment, type of work, and perks.  For example, they'd offer a short assignment where you could work four 10 hour days, etc., and on arriving at the destination they'd extend the timeframe and disallow promised perks.

Office politics could be bad at times as well - if a project went wrong, there was definite incentive to find someone else to blame.