Company: PwC
Date: 2020-03-21
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

US IT is a slave shop
Pros: They make you feel like you are the cream of the crop
Their building, facilities, and available perks
Cons: They need to change the culture to one where they value people over timelines. It’s a slave shop in the IT department. And too heavy with managers and senior managers who are mostly inefficient (excess overhead), and do nothing to add value. 
It’s an efficient slow moving old titanic including their accountancy and the budgeting of projects. 
They have lots and lots and lots of useless meetings, lots of slide decks, bottlenecks/approval processes, and people layers who do layers of meaningless motion, micromanage and control teams..., they are the complete opposite of agility. 
They constantly lay people off, then rehire them as consultants. 
If you are a slave driver and love beating up people, and are politically savvy enough to make it look like your meaningless motion and movement are adding value you will fit in well here and do a great job. 
In addition, no one is managing or monitoring their internal US IT agile transformation yet they have an advisory practice that goes out and sells agile transformation services, thus they don’t practice what they are out there selling .
The poor IT people - especially consultants and contractors are at the beck and call of the business (internal customers), and the fact of the matter is that they all work for the SAME company - PwC. 
IT management / lack of leadership allows this and people are overworked and have health issues because of it. Saying they value humans and people is a BIG joke. All they care about is “when will the project be done?” And they enforce mandatory OT to make sure projects finish on time. 
They use offshore vendors that do not give enough of a sufficient window of overlapping working time due to time zones so they have many communication gaps and a loss of productivity. But they don’t see it. It’s all about cheap labor here. They constantly have rifts so they can rid of highly paid employees at the top of the tier. And their budgeting of IT efforts is so ancient its like ancient accounting 101 back in the day. 
They budget projects ahead of time without knowing what the real work is, and they estimate projects without the actual team members who will actually build the software products or processes. Imagine a doctor estimating surgery time for other doctors who will be doing the surgery. No one is monitoring what goes on in the IT space. Only senior managers, directors, and service delivery managers who are at the ROOT of this problem and business analysts and tech leads who are all command and control. 
This is a very slow moving shop. They have lots of innovative ideas coming out every day with “digital this and digital that”, but their outdated and layered processes are valued over their people. People don’t even have time to enjoy their time off or learning. PwC will tell you they value people more than anything - it’s a big brainwash facade. After working there a few years, you then start to see it. 
Pwc kills people, and ages them.