Company: PwC
Date: 2008-12-30
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

College hires promoted faster, compensated slower. Experienced hires, the opposite effect.
Pros: Training opportunities are plenty. Advisory University provides lots of opportunities for networking and developing skills. They'll also pay for you to get and keep any certification, and you'll have no trouble maintaining the CPE credits while at PwC.

 If you're proactive, you can forge your own path from the first day you start. If you want to do work in any given area in your market, you can find other people in the firm who are doing it, share knowledge with them and attempt to start selling work - even from the time you are just an associate. 

A positive or a negative depending on how you look at it is: People who start out of college can get promoted faster but get compensated slower. People who come in as experienced hires have the opposite effect.
Cons: They promote work-life balance officially, but then it's not always supported when it comes down to it. Senior leadership needs to have their own work-life balance, because if the staff don't see it in action, they won't know that it's okay. You get 22 days of vacation a year, and struggle to find time to take it.

A positive or a negative depending on how you look at it is: People who start out of college can get promoted faster but get compensated slower. People who come in as experienced have the opposite effect. This sometimes results in people four years out of school growing up in the firm and they become unqualified managers. They've had one client the whole time, worked at one company, and don't have much on the resume. If you come in as experienced, expect to be given an offer at a staff level below what you are actually qualified for.