Company: PwC
Date: 2016-08-12
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good place to start building a career in the financial industry. Entitled recent college grads need not apply.
Pros: For the Columbia area:
- Decent salary
- Great networking opportunities
- Non-monetary benefits including reasonable amount of vacation and unlimited sick time, many benefits for parents (such as both maternity and paternity leave).
- Flexible working hours
- A work/life balance you won't find in the Core practice. 
- Some opportunity to travel during engagements
Cons: - Often times people are hired right out of college with no sense of real-world experience and who expect to start at the top because they're the "best and brightest" and got 99th percentile on their SATs, ACTs, etc, and the negative attitudes of those individuals and individuals like them can poison the working atmosphere.
- Some conflicting information and lack of clarity about what is required to get a raise/bonus/promotion. 
- You often don't get to pick your projects. 
- Interviews cannot give a "full picture" view of what is expected of those who accept positions with the SDC and staff onboarding is rushed. This results in the hire of the people mentioned in the first bullet.
-Raise increases are not correlated to new job titles, rather they increase a percentage to meet the "pay band" and not the starting salary of the position