Company: PwC
Date: 2016-03-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great training for the individual (with soul-crushing focus on billable hours), peculiar visions by leadership
Pros: - for 20-somethings in their first job, you will get great training in technical skills, while also learning to work really hard and do high-quality work
Cons: - You will learn to dread the unenviable tug of war between "keep your billable hours as high as possible" and "try not to bill too many hours to this client"

- You will look at the existing contracts (back in 2011, I remember Partner rates at $400-500/hour) and you will learn how clients chose a competitor for the bid, and you will wonder why they cannot realize that their rates are too high

- You will sit in one of the town hall meetings (ok, this was back in 2006) and you will hear the leadership exult, "last year was our BEST YEAR EVER ... so this year, we are looking to BEAT THAT!" and you will wonder how this seems sustainable. But you are 23, so you keep your mouth shut. And then you watch as people are laid off, because they were behind budget. But the budget was built on stupid goals.

- You do work you are not qualified to do, because your partner is desperate for any work.