Company: PwC
Date: 2012-09-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good for the resume, bad for everything else
Pros: It is a great company to have on your resume. 
Some of the people are starting to get the whole work-life-balance/flexibility initiatives that National is trying to push down.
Cons: You have to demand work life balance or you won't get it. Culture is very old school, especially when compared to the surrounding Silicon Valley. You are expected to work long hours even when it isnt busy season. Some teams work consistently until 3am during busy season (Jan-Mar). 
The experience you get at PwC looks good on your resume, but you don't actually know anything about working in industry. Auditing is very different than actually doing the accounting. This job is a lot of "documenting around"  issues. I don't think the skills learned here are valuable outside of public accounting unless you go into internal audit or SOX compliance.