Company: PwC
Date: 2016-05-09
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior associate
Pros: Some colleagues are brilliant and helpful. You can learn quite a lot despite the cons outlined below. Nothing more to bring to the attention in the pros.
Cons: A significant percentage of managers are not good at their job, but in the end seniors are those to blame if something goes wrong. 
When I first arrived in the office, I received no training or any other kind of support even if I came from a different firm. 
It's not rare to find people ready to stab you at the back, so you have to be careful.
Office politics matter very much. The firm use people until they burnout, then it's easy for them to push out and replace employees.
No work-life balance especially in busy season when there are so many deadlines. In those moments it's very difficult to have more staff if you need help on an engagement. Therefore it's common to work very long hours, until late at night.
For all the hardwork only one manager thanked me. They just expect seniors to work like crazy.
The job is very boring with a lot of admin.