Company: PwC
Date: 2014-09-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great place to start your career, then jump.
Pros: The pay is good but oddly is heavily weighted towards salary instead of bonus.  If you make friends with partners you will keep a steady stream of work, which is key.  You can get as much work and get involved in as many things as you like, which gives you more exposure.
Cons: pwc is an up or out firm, no matter how they try to deny it.  The forced grading on a curve ensures that some are forced into ratings that aren't necessarily accurate because they need to meet the arbitrary curve.  one of the moments that sticks out to me most: at a director's meeting, an executive got up and talked about how its not important to be home to tuck your kids in bed at night or to be at every soccer game.  According to him, being a parent, and what your kids remember are the "milestone moments" like when he rented out the dallas cowboys stadium for his kid's birthday.  Sorry- being a parent IS about being there for all the small moments.