Company: PwC
Date: 2010-06-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Reviews about the Consulting (ERP practice in specific) at PwC India
Pros: (1) Huge set of responsibilities even at the bottom of the pyramid which will get you huge learning at early juncture in your career.
(2) The daze and glaze of the brand name
(3) Learn a lot of People Management here - thanks to the dirty domestic market.
Cons: (1) The huge set of responsibilities (which are listed above) will make you over-burdened after a point in time and every April will make you realize that your hard work is going to bring hardly any recognition. Some people take one April to realize it, some two.. those who get till the (un)lucky third will stick around for a longgggger time to come.
(2) The brand name (whatever it is) comes from the Audit/Assurance arm and the Technology business has no strength whatsoever to bring any laurels back home.
(3) A bad, bad culture. Sycophancy at its best - Self Respect at its lowest.
(4) No attention is given to employee's career development - not even in theory. Most of the people with some aspirations for their careers can soon get the feeling of being unemployable anywhere else and would then need to shuttle between the Big 4's amongst the same set of work practices and culture.
(5) We dirty our hands in the poor domestic market which means no profits (which means cost optimizations all the time, no great bonuses ever, infact you can land up in Tier IV/V sort of cities with no per diems or difficulty allowance), tight deadlines, no appreciation from the client after any amount of good work, thus no appreciation from your own company either, no exposure to international business obviously, no extra money to make.... frustration in abundance.
(6) There is just no transparency in Appraisals. Almost everybody fits into the bigger average portion of the Bell curve. Slog your a** off or just take the system for a ride - both the people will be shaking their hands in the same THREE rating category in the end. (It might just appear as a positive point to some of you - Good for you!!)