Company: PwC
Date: 2012-08-25
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Good for some, not for others
Pros: --Excellent benefits include medical-dental-eyewear, a transportation account, small employer contribution to a separate retirement fund, voluntary 401K, 22 vacation days and 2 personal days per year, etc. Staff is generally intelligent and hard-working, although most are not well-rounded and display a narrow focus of interests outside of the job and their family.  
--For newly-minted college grads with a financial background, it is good for the resume, and most leave for better jobs.
Cons: --Virtually none of the Staff, most with Accounting/Finance majors and backgrounds, understand the Firm's stupifyingly confusing and non-intuitive finance systems. They are not trained in it and leave most of the background financial work to be done by the Executive Assistants - none are CPAs and most do not have a college degree. Even most of the Staff who actually use the systems do not understand them; mistakes are rampant. 
--The Help Desk for general assistance has been outsourced to India; the Financial Help Desk has been outsourced to Uruguay.  People in those groups are not members of the Firm, yet have access to our confidential and financial information and systems. 
--The Assistants are basically slaves, and they let you know it.  The raises are poor, never even covering cost of living increases. Lying, competition, favoritism and back-stabbing at the Assistant level is a way of life.  Morale has been in the basement for years owing to the lack of inclusion, but by now it is in the sub-basement.