Company: PwC
Date: 2019-02-13
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Relatively young, fast-paced, high-expectations environment with good pay but high stress
Pros: PwC Advisory offers great consulting experiences without necessarily needing a higher education degree than a Bachelor's. It's a great-paying first job after college, as I had. The company culture embraces change quickly compared to the cultures of many large private and public clients-firms I observed. Examples of these changes are the annual review/performance process, ways to work on work-life balance, and using technology at work such as transitioning off Lotus Notes email and onto Google suite. Advisory consultants can receive many benefits and perks such as company-paid cellphones and plans, annual trainings in fun resorts/locations, company-paid food and transport while traveling, and relatively top of the line work laptops. PwC's technology consulting division makes heavy use of its Service Delivery Centers around the world (for examples, in Bangalore, India) so this is a great opportunity to work with colleagues globally, but can also be challenging by nature of working by long-distance.
Cons: The price of PwC's perks are that we are expected to be chained to email/phones/instant messaging system at all times. There is a strong sense of hierarchy between job levels that is not necessarily based on character or merit. For example, a "Director" can email an associate and expect a reply within an hour, but it's acceptable that the same director ignores or replies to an associate more than 1 week later. This instilled 'fear' and the expectation to be very responsive to one's superiors is not very relaxing. PwC is working on work-life balance but there is still a ways to go -- many employees work late into the night, write emails on weekends, etc because they feel pressured by their work's urgency.