Company: PwC
Date: 2015-02-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great company but some curmudgeons ruin the experience
Pros: Great people. Honestly, the people are what makes the company. Intelligent, reactive, and if you find the right niche, good pals. The work is sometimes interesting, and as with all other traveling consultancies, the airline and hotel points are awesome.
Cons: Work-life balance is preached preached preached but execution is highly flawed - it boils down to whether if the people running the project, and your partner cares. There's a lot of work masochists that wear their long hours in the office (not necessarily productive, but just butt in seats) as a badge of honor. PTO? Approved but oh client emergency, have your phone and laptop on at all times. Taking Training? Go for it, but client always come first., postpone your training Instructing Training? Good for your career, you'll have your normal work ontop of 8 hrs of instructing

Most advisory project work is done for the sake of doing work, very few innovative ideas or actions are executed. Facetime is highly valued, but not really valuable in a lot of circumstances - you're just another warm body to fill a seat and billable hours. The word of whoever one level higher up is god, even if it doesn't make sense - openness is discouraged and speaking up will get your ostracized.

tl;dr Great company but some curmudgeons ruin the experience