Company: PwC
Date: 2019-01-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Typical Big4 Workplace
Pros: + Young professional crowd.
+ Open to new ways of doing things.
+ Fairly flat structure - partners very approachable (mostly)
+ Big 4 recognition.
+ Interesting work with good levels of technical depth.
Cons: - Ridiculous systems and policies - creates significant administrative burden on practice staff.
- Pay rises mostly occur on promotion (otherwise enjoy your sub-cpi increase).
- Toxic culture perpetuated by firm policies. Very cliquey (your either in or your out, lots of private chat groups). This is exacerbated by hot desking.
- Focus only on billable targets. So advice to people: getting large clients with good recovery, drop small clients.
- Everything is perception based rather than impact based. Getting noticed is worth more than anything else.
- Unless you are an extrovert - it's a difficult environment.
- Due to focus on billables/revenue and hot desking: there is a lack of team culture (unless you have your own clique to hang out with) and lack of incentive to train junior staff and mentor.