Company: PwC
Date: 2016-01-01
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Corporate Finance - Consultant
Pros: -Great learning curve
-Stimulating tasks
-Great exposure to firms' executives since the first months 
-Good level of competences of senior management that are often recognized by the clients
-Colleagues are willing to transfer their knowledge to juniors in order to let them grow professionally 
-No competition between colleagues at junior levels
-Very informal environment
-Good quality of services delivered to clients
-Many and good exit options
Cons: -Long hours (typical consulting style)
-Low salary compared to top tier financial advisory firms (Rothschild, Lazard,...). For this reason often people complain about it. 
-In Corporate Finance small size clients compared to top firms
-No effort is made to retain talents. This lead to the fact that often best people move after a couple of years and less talented people (on average) stay. In this way managers are often skilled but not very brilliant people.