Company: PwC
Date: 2015-02-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Excellent opportunities to gain experience, but a very rigid system
Pros: PwC is a very strong brand and as a result there are opportunities to work on some iconic projects.
The experience and expertise of the management team is excellent and a valuable source of developing skills and experience to further your career.
It is a very people focused business which strongly encourages training and development of its employees.
Cons: The platforms and systems in place (such as the HR) are incredibly rigid. This is inevitable in a firm as large as PwC and they are very concerned about straying from the rules in case a precedent is set for future requests.
There is the usual office politics as with any business.
There are great opportunities, but I think there is a lot of luck involved: being in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people, being on the correct career pathway. That's not to say that you can't influence this with a great deal of persistence (contacts and relationships are key).