Company: PwC
Date: 2021-03-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Overall great firm - however, not meant for everyone
Pros: Benefits overall are great (PTO, paid phone service, overtime meals, long breaks given at holidays, etc.) and there so many resources for training, technology, etc. It's also a great place to start out your career if you want to work with many others of similar age/background.
Cons: While there are great benefits, being in a client service business means that it's difficult to take vacation and the work really never stops. It's a very high-pressure environment that is not meant for everyone. Each year, if you perform well, you're given more work the next year with the same amount of time to complete the work, even though the work hasn't gotten any more manageable due to the variability of client data/timing, etc. The firm also has aimed to hire less in order to leverage offshore resources and technology, but sometimes the equation does not work and you end up very short staffed with even more work than the prior year. Sometimes it feels like a zero-sum game because in order to make some projects' deliverables higher quality, others have to suffer, or, worse, you have to give up more of your precious personal time, which is already limited because of the expected overtime.