Company: PwC
Date: 2021-01-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

If you like spending many many hours on mostly-pointless spreadsheets for low pay then this is the job for you
Pros: Looks good on resume
Relatively fast-paced promotion track 
Learn how to navigate a fast-paced corporate culture
Learn a bit about accounting
Learn Excel very well
Generally flexible in scheduling, so long as it isn't busy season
Get to know a lot of professional people for a wide variety of backgrounds
Cons: VERY long hours - working 9AM-Midnight every day for weeks is commonplace. Staying past 3AM on several occasions each year is to be expected. 

Considering the amount of time spent working, pay is very low.

The tediousness of much of the work, and the long lengths of time spent doing it make it difficult to stay motivated . 

Eating hours- Management will say in more public announcements that they would never tell anyone to eat their hours. While this is technically true, they will also assign a workload that no human could possibly complete within the time they budget for it. So, yes, you can report the actual number of hours works and then me reprimanded for "inefficiency." In reality, it is ubiquitous for employees to eat tons of hours. 

There is a common misconception that there is one busy season (typically Jan-Mar) that is followed by a relatively tame schedule the rest of the year. Maybe this was true in the past, but it's the opposite of true now. When you work on 4 clients per year, the majority of the year is "busy season."

No bonuses at associate level. Instead, at the end of the traditional winter busy season, a "gift" is given to staff. The gist is typically like a $10 trinket.