Company: PwC
Date: 2015-09-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

FFTF Associate, Consulting and Deals
Pros: -Great place to start a career, I met some really sharp people at PwC
- Great benefits including fitness benefit 
- Great place to get foundational knowledge, the rotational "foundation for the the future" is a good way to explore various areas of the consulting practice as well as various industries (if you are lucky with staffing)
- very flexible: once you prove yourself you can work from home/ come in whenever you want
- opens a lot of doors but only if you are a top performer (annual rating of 2 or 1)
- Great Training and investment in employees
- Fun place to work, the associates you start with will become life long friends.
Cons: - Most Associates are required to do some time in risk assurance services group, which is audit work. This is unfortunate as this is not advertised in the recruitment process.
- Some associates were treated very poorly, staff with low utilisation or billables were sent to a "confirmation centre" for a couple months where they were calling banks/ PwC clients to confirm payments. 
- Smart people who are less inclined to play the office politics will not do well at PwC. The firm favors people who are very good at play the game. This is why all the smart people leave and we are left with average associates.
- Job security is a concern, in April 2014 people laid off 50 employees in the consulting practice. 
- Partners that come from the IBM practice are ones to avoid, they come from a bad culture and often spread their ways in the competency they manage.
- Poor staffing process, random and turnover for resource manager is high (we get a new RM every 3 months)