Company: PwC
Date: 2017-04-30
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Just learned a most valuable lesson...there's simply no loyalty in companies anymore
Pros: You get to claim you worked for a company that has been voted as 100 Best Companies to work for.
Cons: PwC massively laid off a bunch of their resources yet again! The same people that implemented the "inefficient" IT organization structure from the last time they had a massive layoff from 2010 are still in place and all the worker bees paid the price for it. 

I agree that the business model of third party matrix model was an absolute ridiculousness...it was so inefficient! It required a lot of red tape on "approvals" and overtime just to make it work.  However, don't blame the worker bees, including the managers that tried managing that, blame the "leadership" that came up with that, who are by the way are still there!

They claimed that they've tried matching resources in roles, whoever "they" are because our direct supervisors were not even consulted when they were matching roles.  They've claimed that they've merged roles, but it was clear that it was bottom-line cutting after realizing who were let go.  They got rid of people that were with the firm for a long period of time, earned a lot and/or manager/senior manager/director levels.  Some who were even almost near retirement!  If you look at the career site, you'll find roles that they could have easily matched with more than a handful of people that they got rid of.

Not exactly sure how this company got the "100 Best Company to work for" when in reality they failed to take care of their employees.  They could have tried harder in taking care of the very people that worked and served for 10-25+ yrs! They could have given them the option to take on a lower level or looked at their overall experiences and offered education in topics, e.g. DevOps, Agile, etc.  Instead, they've chosen to let go nearly 400 people from Finance, Marketing & Sales, HR and IT.

If you are looking to work here, plan on getting it in your mind that this is NOT the company to grow roots.  Learn whatever there is to learn and move on to other companies that actually care.