Company: PwC
Date: 2020-09-05
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Do not come here if you are a technical professional that wants to remain technical
Pros: - Potential to work with the heads of top companies in the country
- Potential to do permanent meaningful changes to a top company
- Lenient vacation days regulations (when not on a project)
- Decent enough pay but can make 10-30k more on average in the industry
- Can keep your hotel/airline points for yourself
- Work cell phone is yours when the contract is up
Cons: - Without kissing up or working at 100% + utilization you will not get promoted
- Without kissing up or getting lucky, you will not get put on projects that will progress your career
- You are expected to find projects when you are on the bench and are penalized for being on the bench too long. If a project comes along that doesnt align with your goals, you generally have to take it because of this utilization requirement
- If you are technical and want to remain technical, this is not the place for you. There are very limited onshore technical roles, as most of that work has been moved offshore. There also seems to be a lack of technical projects. I was hired as an "Experienced" Associate, meaning I had 6-7 years of full time professional IT experience; I was trained on various technical fundamentals and cybersecurity products. NOT ONCE, not once, was I put on an implementation project DESPITE BEING ALIGNED TO IMPLEMENTATIONS AND OPERATIONS. I was instead, given majority strategy projects, which are the most boring and short projects in the company. Short projects = low utilization. It's a scam. Many of those very technical coworkers that were hired with me (were DBA's, Developers, DevOps Engineers in their past life) have ALL left. I can't speak for any other new hire group but out of mine, I don't know of any that haven't left the company
- Very elitist mentality despite only a few being elite
- Very pyramid-scheme-esque pay model 
- I can't speak for any other Line of Service, but I was in Advisory - Cyber Security - Implementations & Operations. I did not work with ONE other black person my 2+ years at the company. I was on 7 projects in those 2 years in various parts of the country. Not one. Now, I understand there are more whites and indians in this field naturally, but it still doesnt make sense. This leads to a LOT of micro aggressions that can cause palatable tension at work as well as exclusionary behavior
- When you voice your complaints to you coach, mentors, leaders you get the same rhetoric about how we are going to help you get on the projects that align with your prior experience and future goals. Nothing comes from it
- I do not feel this job helped my career as a technical IT professional, as I have lost some of my ability due to not using it
- Before I left, there was a top cyber security partner that left a scathing exit email that was sent to all staff describing how despite making "exorbitant amounts of money" he couldn't see the value in the work and the firm. This is a man that was making over $1M a year. Take that for what you will