Company: PwC
Date: 2018-04-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Consulting Manager
Pros: - Very nice group of people in general
- Talent attraction: generally pretty smart and highly educated colleages. 
- Good/big clients: Usually FTSE 250 or similar global.
- Nice offices in London
- Fairly innovative with some good frameworks and IP
Cons: - Broken performance management and moderation process: It's not about quality of feedback but about quantity. People cheat the process by getting performance reviews from "buddies". If the feedback does not come from a Partner, or from an influential Director, it does not count. Also, it's tacitly accepted that one shouldn't really say any real development areas in their feedback. e.g. I was once given really good feedback, but this person didn't include any 'development' points in it because "they would use it against me in moderation".
- A culture that rewards wrong/less valuable behaviours: visibility and popularity is much more important than quality of delivery. It almost looks like quality, techical acumen, are very low in their scale. 
- At least in my experience I had two very unenthusiastic and untrustworthy People Managers. They completely set me up for failure when not being transparent about the culture of the firm mentioned above. 
- Pay is the lowest amongst the Big 4s, pretty tough to live in London with PwC salaries. But the talent and work is in London, so they should try to pay for it. Sad bonus scheme, and zero chance of getting a payrise if you don't get promoted.
- Greedy: The UK Partnership is among the most profitable of the PwC firms. This is on the expense of low pay to staff. How can they justify that the Avg Partner profit is 12 times a Mgrs salary? It's also around 6-7x a Director's salary. Is a Partner's value added 6-7x of what a Director brings? I am not sure. While Partners are in general hard working individuals, most of their role is Sales. Is an experienced Sales person paid 6-7x times more than a delivery person in other companies? Don't get me wrong, all Partners are in general fairly well experienced leaders that definitely made it there for a reason. I just think they could adjust their disposable income to level de staff's pay with the market.
Surely they are not in PwC just for the money? (At least that's what they preach to staff)