Company: PwC
Date: 2014-07-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Traveled every week and made great money
Pros: My consulting colleagues were terrific: super smart, educated, and genuinely committed to client success. Most people who work there really care about their teams and want you to grow and have great experiences. I had several informal mentors who were hugely helpful and supportive throughout my career with PwC. Their clients are leaders in very successful organizations. You learn a lot about how to run complex businesses in fast-changing environments. Most people in my practice traveled Monday - Thursday, and worked in their own home city Fridays. Depending on your internal commitments, you can work from home many Fridays.
Cons: Some partners will bid very low for prestigious projects, with the reasoning that the team will "leverage" a lot of prior work, enabling them to complete the new project with limited time and resources. But all clients throw curve balls and scope changes are frequent. You and your team will scramble to deliver what the client really needs in the short time frame specified in the original contract. In my practice, there were not many local clients, so I traveled every week. Even when I was home, many weekend days were spent working, so work took over a lot of my life for weeks and months on end.