Company: PwC
Date: 2013-11-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Pass on PwC Portland
Pros: - Great training opportunities
-Learn a lot in the late hours
-401k match
-Great family leave benefits
-Great network of experts in specialized areas
Cons: -A number of out of market partners service Portland clients.  If you're working for out of market partners, your jobs get ignored from a staffing/rewards perspective. 
-Partners don't call clients on issues enough 
-HR personnel are unreliable and overinvolved in trying to address staff complaints.  
-Firm has gone crazy with policies to address PCAOB comments that don't really improve audit quality. 
-In an attempt to outsource work to foreign personnel, staff aren't receiving proper training on the basics of auditing.