Company: PwC
Date: 2017-12-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior Tax Associate
Pros: My tax group specifically had high morale. Fun, energetic, happy, young group of co-workers. The managers and above were all very smart, open to helping you and not intimidating. They encouraged you to grow and move up the chain. Great support system and mentoring. We produced high quality products to our clients and the managers and above had very high expectations, which is a very good thing. You got to meet tons of people from other tax services during trainings, or in office activities. I made long-lasting relationships here. I looked forward to coming into work mainly because of the awesome people. Great training tools and technology. We had tons of resources at our disposal that helped in our job and connections to the smartest in tax in other offices we could utilize. PwC has tons of opportunities to do rotations in other offices or outside the country. I am glad I started my career here, I definitely don't regret it.
Cons: Our busy season was like 6 months out of the year. Very long hours,  had to work almost every weekend. Hard to plan ahead and plan vacations. I worked so much I could not study for my CPA during that time. The directors and below were all working late, so I felt I had to do the same or "be online" as people can tell if are or aren't working and may judge you for it. I feel even if you are rated very high with high utilization, you are still making "about the same" as those that were rated low. There are many bad applies in the group as well as good. But if you are good apple that just means you will get even more work because they  know you'll do it right. PwC hardly fires people. If you suck but you are a warm body, they will keep you. But that hinders those that are doing a good job. Way too many admin schedules, sheets, forms, budgets etc that you have to keep up with that are all pointless.