Company: PwC
Date: 2018-02-19
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Avoid the Public Sector Digital Services Team!
Pros: None that I can think of.
Cons: Cons regarding my work on the Public Sector Digital Services team:

A) HORRIFIC LEADERSHIP - The Directors of PS Digital Services have no clue what they're doing, are horrific leaders, and truly enjoy making our lives suck. They lead by fear and panic and literally blame everyone for their mistakes, resulting in crappy morale, 90% churn rate, and a broad sense of worthlessness and insecurity. They've blocked people from transferring, they throw associates under the bus, treat clients like garbage, and yell at us all the time! Absolutely crazy.

B) BORING PROJECTS - Due to PwC's insanely high rates, we never win any exciting or innovative projects. Instead, we win work based on who can pay our rates... literally, the most boring projects ever (e.g. tweeting for gov't agencies, basic photoshop work, etc).

C) ZERO WORK-LIFE BALANCE - I missed a lot of family and social events... and I had to start asking for weekends off!! 

D) LOW BUDGET - Everything is low budget, so we have to scrap by using outdated tools, methods, and resources. There's very little DevOps infrastructure in place, so project work takes twice as long to implement.

E) LACK OF ADVANCEMENT - There's absolutely no room to grow, my skill sets are underutilized, there's no money for learning new skills/tools or conferences, and the worst part is that all of this is used against me (as if it's my fault) during promotion time.