Company: PwC
Date: 2010-08-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great place to get started...
Pros: - Opportunities to work on challenging engagements
- Great resume builder
- Opportunities to go places can begin as soon as 2 yrs after start date, but are generally more abundant after 3-4 yrs (i.e., domestic transfers, international transfers, transfers to other lines of service)
- It feels like management has taken a more long-term approach on staffing and has not laid off a significant number of individuals due to the economic downturn (this can be classified as either a pro or con depending on your performance - when PwC decided to do this they froze salaries to pay for the additional heads that were retained)
Vacation time increases from 15 days to 22 days/yr after 2 years
Cons: - Promotion to senior after 3 yrs (other Big 4 promote after 2 yrs)
- Compensation - pay increases (after considering unfavorable changes to health care coverage coupled with increasing premiums) don't feel as nice
- Salary bands within each staff class appear to be tight, which suggests that higher performing individuals (in terms of base pay increases) don't appear to be as significant when compared to expected performing individuals - I feel this, to a degree, inhibits higher performance