Company: PwC
Date: 2019-06-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Live the values, but you won't be rewarded for it
Pros: An organisation full of high performers.
Cons: The organisation continuously talks about how important values and purpose are, but will continue to struggle creating that culture if it only rewards those people who are given high profile opportunities. If you aren't given these opportunities, or the opportunities in your team never come to fruition, or your projects are cancelled by leadership, you don't stand a chance of receiving a high rating. Essentially the performance system if flawed with inequity and is out of the employees control. Therefore creating a culture of competition, not coaching and care.

If you are in the internal firm services, you will struggle to get promoted as the competition for roles is getting higher, senior managers don't leave or want to advance to director, and are therefore creating a ceiling for managers to continuously bump their heads on.

Presenteeism is still very much a part of this culture, whether that is in the office, or wearing a badge of honour for the early/late calls you attend. Flexible working for some seems to mean working from home 5 days a week and being online for as long as possible.