Company: PwC
Date: 2018-10-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Assurance Associate
Pros: - Great exposure to industries and the biggest clients in the economy, no matter where you are globally
- Best way to start your career as the experience you gain from working with different staff members and clients on various engagements and the type of work you do (intense workload and long stressful hours) will prepare you for any type of work environment which you will encounter later on in life.
- The people who you work with are extremely intelligent and knowledgeable.
- Training and coaching programmes are amongst the best of all the accounting firms
- Opportunities to move to other offices or go on global secondments
- Having the experience and the PwC brand on your CV will help you no matter where you go, as there is a global standard of the highest quality and excellence which is recognised by recruiters
Cons: - Long stressful hours with little pay and no overtime.
- Working in an environment in which you constantly feel threatened or pressured, as the smallest offset could make you get a bad rating on an audit or not get the over time pay which you had initially agreed on with the manager.
- Being at the mercy of all your managers and seniors as your ratings are dependent on how they feel about you and if they are unhappy or in a bad mood, they could rate you badly and it will go on your company record.
- Underappreciated staff and a resultant high turnover, which further upsets clients because the audit teams keep changing.
- Too much red tape with every internal process which has to be conducted.
- High level of hierarchy and partners who constantly act like they are too good to speak to you and they dont care about your future or your career