Company: PwC
Date: 2011-07-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Competitive Work Environment
Pros: You work with extremely smart people who are willing to share their knowledge with you.  If you are patient enough, you will get challenging work assignments, you just have to prove yourself first by doing a lot of dirty work (i.e. boring assignments).  And starting off at a Big 4 will open many doors for your career, whether you leave after 1 year, 5 years, or 10 years.
Cons: Extremely competitive work environment.  It seems as if no matter how hard you work, how late you stay, how smart you are, you are never good enough.  People can be ruthless at times because of the competitive culture (i.e. "high performance culture").  It is one thing to challenge people to continue to go above and beyond, but when you have co-workers withholding information from the rest of the team in order to shine at that meeting with the partner, that's when you know enough is enough.