Company: PwC
Date: 2009-04-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Outsiders' desirable heaven to work, but actually a ruin of life when you sacrifice too much for it...
Pros: - There are a lot of smart people (in both technical and social perspectives). The partners are really knowledgeable (they are compared with the encyclopedia!).
- The education and learning scheme PwC provides to staff is quite good (internal learning, ACCA scholarships, country CPA and CTA - tax certificate).
- Having the name of PwC as the employer in your resume means you've got a credited guarantee to gain a high level job in the financial market place.
Cons: - Salary review is only carried out on an annually basic in June. The question is how we could have our motivation last for a year long?
In general, the remuneration paid to PwC's staff is quite low and cannot be comparable with the time, effort and other sacrifice the staff made to the Company. Staff generate such a high revenue to PwC each year but do not receive the adequate salaries.
Especially, in the downturn trend of current years, a lot of benefits previously provided to staff have been cut (i.e. holidays, parties, etc). The salaries increase at the ever-minimum rate or even no increase is offered.
- Work/life balace is seriously violated. The expected working hours each day in a normal season (not quite busy) are from 8:00 am to at least 6:00 pm. In busy seasons, you are required to completely concentrate on the work and cannot leave the office to home until about 9:00 or 10:00 pm.
- PwC provides a ambitious and seem-to-be desirable education scheme for its staff, but does not provide an adequate time budget for them to do the study. When we get home at 10:00 pm and go to office at 7:30 am tomorrow, what is the time you give to the study?