Company: PwC
Date: 2018-09-11
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

PwC Assurance Associate
Pros: Great people, looks impressive on your CV, amazing offices, lots of other young employees (joined in an intake of grads), lots of chances to get involved in things outside of work, and on the whole what you learn in your ICAEW qualification is useful and will open doors in the future.
Cons: Mainly that there are really long hours in busy periods (e.g. potentially working 8am-1am for two weeks), and even in less busy periods you're still working most evenings as you have to fit in your exam study around your clients.   The exams are also quite difficult and have a huge amount of content that you have to learn in a very short amount of time.  Due to the large size of the company you can also sometimes feel like a small fish in a very big pond.  But I would say the pros outweigh the cons and it is worth it in the end.