Company: PwC
Date: 2012-07-04
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Best place to work as spartan training grounds and peaceful veteran times
Pros: It is a firm where organization or rather management shows deep trust in employee capability. You are never micromanaged and are provided with huge amount of freedom to get work done as per your style.Of course there is a code of conduct which we call " PwC values" which you have to abide by. All in all i have seen most people ranting against what their managers do in other firms but at-least mangers at PwC are not free enough to cause you trouble. As starting salary is low and hiring bar is high for the firm , it has always been a challenge to attract  new work force , PwC has always been a good training ground for freshers. Once you prove your worth in the firm , you get nice increments and you might easily reach a pay package which could be called best in your class. Once you have done ample learning owing to high exposure received to work variety and execution freedom , you can lead an easy going life as firm generally doesn't pressurize employees to stretch their limits  unless they claim willingness to do so.
Cons: work life balance is nowhere to be found for freshers as you are expected to do what a subject matter experts would have delivered.
sometimes freedom given to employees by managers is seen as apathy to work by people who have joined laterally. If such employees come from a background where micromanagement is norm. Their first impression on managers will be of lazy person but actually it is of case of employee does not have any directions. Such employees end up not getting decent increments and usually move out very quick.