Company: PwC
Date: 2016-09-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Senior associate - London audit
Pros: - firm pays for ACA qualification and gives study leave
- opportunities to audit plenty of well known brands and companies
- Lots of young people in the firm which allows for good social life
- large firm so opportunities to second to a number of different areas eg. Deals, consulting, tax and a wide international network so can live abroad
Cons: - the company really takes its pound of flesh in exchange for the ACA. Long hours for awful pay in the first three years with overtime payments near non existent
- horrible work life balance, long hours throughout the year and not just the audit busy season. 
- audit work is very boring to begin with, only when you're near qualified does it get more interesting
- company is so terrified of being hammered under new auditing guidelines so ever more testing is being rolled out in the name of compliance, resulting in even longer hours for staff to tick more boxes
- negligible bonus
- constant staff shortages as everyone leaves when they qualify after having dealt with the horrible hours for 3 years