Company: PwC
Date: 2009-10-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Stick to accounting
Pros: - Good name recognition.  As a Big 4 firm, it commands respect to most people
- For consultants, work/life balance was relatively good
- Pay was good relative to the hours
- PwC supported volunteering
Cons: - Run by accountants: what they consider consulting seemed to be more of IT audit
- Depending on the group, it was very political.  Our group was basically a bunch of IT auditors
- Most of the firm are accountants with CA/CPAs; those outside of that realm don't command much respect
- Consulting colleagues did not show the same client-facing skills that you would have seen in the MCS days.  The culture was dominated by the arrogance stemming from audit, where the company won work because it was compliance focused
- Projects were generally compliance-related and not very interesting