Company: PwC
Date: 2019-09-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Experience can be valuable, but work culture is problematic
Pros: - Learning curve can be really steep in first few years within audit;
- Depending on clients, associates and seniors can obtain a lot of skills and experience in different industries;
- Firm has taken recent flexibility initiatives, such as working from home (however, see cons below); 
- A large network of professional and smart people who can be great mentors.
Cons: - The culture of work hard, play hard is problematic, particularly where tight deadlines are dropped on your lap in form of new clients, resulting in overall busy year (not just busy season Jan - Apr) as soon as you're an assistant manager or manager;
- Flexibility is encourages however it depends on partners you work with, and when tight deadlines are added to your plate last minute, you do end up working crazy number of hours;
- It becomes difficult to keep up with hobbies, maintaining personal relationships and a regular evening classes when work schedule is so unpredictable.