Company: PwC
Date: 2013-10-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A mixed experience, but worth trying at least once
Pros: I was at PwC for 2 years.  During that time, I had a chance to travel, to learn, and to work with many bright, interesting, experienced folks.  There are visionaries within Advisory - you just have to hunt for them.  The work was challenging, but it was a high stakes, fairly well run (considering the massive size of our clients, and our firm) operation, and the firm really does have a good brand and tries to bring people into an experience. Plus Bob always seems like a decent fellow, and the company is at least trying to evolve with the times.
Cons: They say it's not an 'up and out' type of firm, but that's just not true.  Management didn't know what to do with some of the brightest folks, so as a result people left or were fired - and little in the way of overall vision came from middle management.  There was pressure to get staffed, but ironically much of the business development didn't result in any client work, so as a result people were left on the bench and had no visibility into sales to even help that along.  Disappointing experience in the end, and it didn't have to be that way.  Conflicts between partners meant if you didn't understand politics you wouldn't get staffed - and that's a sad way to operate a business.