Company: PwC
Date: 2019-09-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Belfast Compliance Testing Centre of Excellence
Pros: If you’re 21-30 you’re in the right age group, but you absolutely won’t have a life and you’ll waste your prime years
Cons: Crazy hours, mentality is overtime is good as clients are being billed for it, firm makes money if you’re working it.  I’ve heard people being praised for working to 10pm (although no-one actually checks if they’re really working).  It’s nuts,
Training is appalling.  Genuinely the worst I’ve ever seen.  Non existent, expect to be thrown on to complex testing engagements with the same expectations on you from day 1 as the person sat next to you who’s been there 5 years (and when is too stressed with their own workload to be any use to you).
It’s also nearly impossible to book holidays between beginning of October to end of February in what they call “busy season”.
Expect to be vitamin D deprived - you will truly barely see outdoors apart from waking to/from office in morning/evening.
Public humiliation is 5he order of the day - daily trackers of work completed plus managers do something called taskbook reviews where they weekly sit with you at your desk in front of colleagues and grill you in some detail/humiliate you if they disagree with your approach. 
If you have ANY other option DO NOT join PWC CoE Belfast.