Company: PwC
Date: 2020-08-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Run away!
Pros: - Competitive salary
- Wide range of projects
- Smart colleagues some of whom may care enough to teach you a thing or two
- If you work exclusively with one partner whose line of work aligns with your interest then u are bound to be staffed continuously with the partner and your career will grow with the partner
Cons: - Culture is all talk and show. Partners don't care about you. They don't care if you are learning / growing in your role/ getting opportunities that you like. You are just a number to them. All they care about is how much $$$ value project they sold

- Hardly any career plan - when they say during interviews that you own your career at PwC what it really means is that they don't care about your progress. In my two years there was hardly any career plan, no yearly development plan, no goals assigned and hardly any effort in that direction. They assign one career coach to you whom you never meet in your life since he is on the other coast. He hardly has the time to talk to you once in 3 months. No talk about your goals and what projects/ experinces would help you attain those goals. I made a point to express my goals but my career coach never made the effort to have me staffed on projects aligned with my gaols. My pre-PwC industry job had a much better performance management

- Staffing : No plan here and although they make you fill your project preferences and interests and make a show of how your interests will be taken into account, at the end of the day you are staffed based on demand. If you are free and an obscure project has an opening you are shipped there. And you are expected to lie to the client that you are an expert in the area although that will be your first day. However if you are lucky to be tagged with a partner early in your career at PwC you will mostly be staffed with the same partner 

- All their talk about 360-degree feedback is a sham. No one gives an honest feedback to you. You feel that you are doing great and boom - year end review there is a BIG surprise for you

- Politics Politics Politics - if you are popular among your peers then your chances of getting projects that you want are higher. Probably they should just hire sycophants. If a Partner doesn't like you they will never take u in their team even if your background is most relevant to the project. And if a partner doesn't like your work or your style of work they will bad mouth you in their closed door meeting and make sure that you are not staffed at all - Did they forget a thing called feedback so that the consultant knows what his areas of development are?

- Backstabbing - Directors/ Managers/ Sr. Managers will make you work 70-90 hrs a week and provide you no feedback if they have an issue with you or your work. You will never get that honest feedback. You will never know until the year end review. To your face they may say that you were great in your job and how you added value to the team but behind you they will tell their close associates that they will never work with you.

- If you are a junior team member they will act as if they own your life. Calling you in the middle of the night to ask why a certain number doesn't add up 

- The work is un-original. Seen projects where work documents from previous engagements were copied

- Senior partners boss around. They bring in the $$$ so all their antics are tolerated. All they care is the $$$ and believe in working the team members to the ground (they see working you to ground as an accomplishment) It sadly results in toxic work culture where junior members are verbally assaulted by seniors