Company: PwC
Date: 2016-01-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

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Pros: Resources made available by PwC. The work is more interesting than many other groups, and you get exposure to valuation processes across many asset classes. In this regard, I think the exit opportunities this group can offer are specialized and sought after in private.
Cons: The PwC name doesn't help you much here as someone who would like to go into finance.
This is not working in finance. This is mostly assisting with audits as they relate to valuation of the areas the group covers. 
The hours are terrible.
The group is poorly run. There are few managers who know what they are doing, across offices, and they end up seemingly not caring about well-being of newer people because they're trying to crush all the work all the time. They are looking for new hires even at the senior and manager level because of the turnover. 
This is a churn and burn scenario. They claim positive culture but end of the day people are unhappy because it is underpaid, hardly a finance role, and everyone is intensely focused on chargeable hours and other BS metrics. PwC bonuses are no incentive.