Company: PwC
Date: 2012-12-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Awful place, filled with discrimination, demoralisation and office politics
Pros: Some of the people who work at PwC are genuinely kind and friendly and working with them can be  a good experience. However, these people are always dominated by the loud, arrogant types and left unrecognised and demoralised.
Cons: Deeply unfair performance management system, in which the most important trait appears to be a loud, dominant personality and in which office politics and discrimination (particularly against quieter types who get on with their work rather than talk all day) is rife
Excessive and unreasonable working hours in which staff are worked like slaves, often under unreasonable pressure. It is usual to have to work at weekends. And, at the end of the year the hardworking people end up with a demoralising  negative (and often false) performance review whilst the loud (but often incompetent) ones get promoted.
The quality of work often is not great. The firm is increasingly obsessed with budgets and efficiencies and often work is signed off that is poor.