Company: PwC
Date: 2017-10-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior Associate
Pros: Great training, work with the best and brightest. The experience is invaluable and something that is hard to find at other places.
Cons: The engagement team that you are placed on determines whether your experience will be enjoyable or not. Unfortunately, the firm as a whole seems to embrace operating as a sweatshop. They can afford to work their associates into the ground because there will be another batch of first-years ready to go next recruiting cycle. The pay is not commensurate with the amount of hours worked and the work product expected.

There is a disconnect between HR and the engagement teams sitting at client sites. HR truly believes that the firm offers a certain experience that embraces "flexibility" - they market this experience to college students. Those students are surprised, however, when they arrive to work and their expectations do not align with what was sold to them.