Company: PwC
Date: 2018-10-06
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

PWC SDC Bangalore - Loser's Den - Big No for Smart People
Pros: 1) You get to learn MS Office and some tools like Tableau, Alteryx
Cons: 1) This is a back office of PwC USA, mostly based on the cost arbitrage model and meant to execute menial projects which the US folks better think of outsourcing and this is not a typical consulting firm
2) The managers here quite diligently devote 50% of their time judging others and talking bad at the back of employees. It would have been much better if these guys ever focused on improving themselves and the team
3) Mindless hiring policies, they would club somebody having 5 or 6 years of work ex at the same level as a fresher, irrespective of the fact that the one having 5 years of work ex is coming from a tier 1 b school, worked at the best of the firms and the freshers they hire only from tier 2-3 b schools..I know quite a lot of folks who are simply unhappy coz of this
4) The managers openly support doing menial projects which is extremely disturbing..some of the stuffs that the US guys can tell you are like a) hiding columns in a file b) putting separators in a column c) doing elementary data entry stuffs..
5) Despite being deplorable, some of the folks have stayed in the organization for long and have reached Manager level in a short duration of time, at the same time all the managers also accept the deficiency of this SDC model, and when asked why did you guys stayed in the organization for this long knowing the truth..all of them give straight answers like a) you don't have to travel, its a desk job b) we were getting promotions easily..so that's evidently disturbing as I see complacent people becoming managers who are not ready to face bigger challenges/assignments..they got promotions easily as the smarter ones realized and left the firm early, fools remained in the firm only to face no competition and thus got promoted..bare reality, everyone knows this including them
6) They hire from tier 2-3 bschools like SP Jain, SJSOM, NITIE..won't call it a very smart place
7) Annual increments and bonus are in the range of 3-4%