Company: PwC
Date: 2018-01-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Will provide good experience but don't care about their employees
Pros: - Intake is usually same age so you'll work with lots of people of comparable experience and make good friends

- Overtime can be used as additional time off once all exams are finished

- Will learn to lead a team 

- Opens future doors with employer as Big 4 looks good on CV

- Office is quite nice
Cons: - Work is haphazardly planned and place is full of managers who couldn't hack it in real world outside audit. So you end up swinging constantly between doing nothing and extremely stressful late nights.

- Busy season is horrible with expectations of 12 hours days plus weekend work being the norm, also due to bad planning you'll also be expected to juggle three or four jobs at the same time while trying to teach junior staff. 

- Most junior staff coming in have absolutely no idea what their even supposed to be doing because training is absolutely abysmal. It gets extremely tiring having to explain the most basic functions of excel to someone 15 times a year for 3 years because its never touched during training. 

- Constant celebrations of winning new clients despite office being short staffed enough that we can barely audit clients we have.

- There is absolutely no respect for personal life with you often only being told a few days beforehand that you are going out on client side in the middle of nowhere for two months. 

- Absolutely minimal job perks, food is not subsidised, canteen food is more expensive than in surrounding area restaurants.
Food provided at busy season is absolutely dire quality and most likely watered down leftovers from lunch. 
Company nights out are absolutely stingy affairs with staff usually receiving maybe two drinks a night despite 15 EUR coming out salary every month for "Social committee costs".