Company: PwC
Date: 2019-07-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Good for ACA, but terrible working conditions
Pros: * Good for getting ACA from big4 and good prospects after Big4
* Networking- you meet a lot of people both inside and outside the firm. 
* You learn how to communicate and perform in difficult situations.
Cons: New generation Partners have their egos out of the roof! Managers are just titles but are made to work long long hours with very less incentive. Pay is absolutely awful for the hours that staff put in. 
Partners come around once in a while over the entire audit and shred work to pieces which is then expected to be fixed by managers and incharges in most cases like tomorrow. No support whatsoever!

There is  also a tendency that if you work on  say 15 jobs during the year, and one goes wrong, this is your fault and will most likely impact your performance rating and bonus.

Bonus is almost non- existent for the efforts! Yet partners get big fat pays making everyone else work mad hours!

The environment is very political. A person sending emails more often and staying in office longer hours gets better ratings and credit than an individual who works harder and delivers their work.

There is a thing around work life balance. But this is usually like
list your commitments over the weekend! So that there is fairer allocation of work
Or pizza during work whilst working already over 12-13 hour days
Or exercise during work again whilst working 12-13 hours.

I do not understand how this is work life balance.

Firm also brain washes you into thinking that the more you stay the better your prospects are in industry! This is not the case. You basically outsell yourself to candidates who moved immediately after qualification.

Overall PwC is a very selfish organisation. Stay away from it if you can!