Company: PwC
Date: 2015-10-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

The most unorganized internship program ever
Pros: Flexibility of picking my location
Cons: I had a horrible internship experience with PwC summer 2015. The whole program was disorganized from start to finish. I was not staffed until the third week of my internship out of eight weeks. I'm from California and I interned in New York but was placed on a California client. They couldn't fly out interns so I had to work remotely. The team didn't have any work for my co-intern and I to do since they were notified about getting interns a week before I started. It would take them 3 days to reply to any emails with questions I had about my assignment. I never met the team or even seen their face. Our only communication was over the phone or email. How am I supposed build company culture this way? I didn't get access to my client's database until the second to last week of my internship and my manager had me spend that entire week playing around with it. So with one week left, I was not able to do anything valuable for the client. My HR coordinator, who was in charge of me, was in the Chicago office and didn't even know my name. There was no one in the office to help me out with anything. The professionals who were assigned to me were never helpful. I sat in the cafeteria the first week and a half because I didn't know where I was supposed to go. I felt like a number at the firm and didn't feel valued. Additionally, every time I asked the HR or the recruiter anything about switching horizontals/verticals, they were very shady about their answers and kept beating around the bush. There was nothing good about the internship. I was extremely disappointed with my experience since they always rave about how great it is. False advertising!