Company: PwC
Date: 2011-09-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Politics trumps performance
Pros: Free phone plan and vacation time are the main perks.
Cons: On the national/global level, it's a great company overall; when you get to the individual office level however, it's a different story. Partners/directors/managers could care less about their peon associates (aka the people who do the dirty work and are responsible for a majority of the revenues). They evaluate you less on your performance than on who you work with. You can work your tail off and not get noticed, while the schmoe in the next cube gets promoted faster just because he/she is a certain partner's pet. They don't appreciate the overtime you put in or the extra efforts you make. They are completely oblivious of people's workloads, and will pile more work on the desk of the guy that's already doing 80 hour weeks while the rest of the 'team' clocks out at 5:00.  Pretty unprofessional for a firm that prides itself on professionalism.