Company: PwC
Date: 2018-08-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Do your research before joining Graduate Program - Risk "Consulting" is glorified internal audit
Pros: - the people really live the values and emulate the firm's mission in their work
- flat structure - senior members of team very approachable and happy to help/chat
- amazing office and facilities
- modern tech (Google partnership)
- brand name/prestige (#1 company Australians want to work for according to LinkedIn)
- smart and very diverse teams (by educational background, cultural background, gender)
Cons: - irrelevant training for Consulting graduates: lumped together and taught strategy/management consulting skills which, while interesting, created false expectations, with barely any of us having the opportunity to put that training into practice in our work
- long (>3 months), boring (monotonous, "in the weeds") projects which were unchallenging and unstimulating
- misrepresentation of role - some teams under the Consulting umbrella really do not qualify as being "Consulting" - "Advisory" or even "Internal Audit" would be more accurate
- promotion appears to be based on arbitrary timeframes rather than merit
- graduates allocated to teams instead of being given a choice