PwC reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,675 total reviews)
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Mohamed Kande

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

PwC has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 75,675 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PwC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Decent pay after a few years - If on a travel project, you'll work all the time, but make lifelong connections - Opportunity to work with VERY BRIGHT and VERY TALENTED people if you're on the right project.

Cons

- Politics - LOTS of effort required on your part to get visibility, get staffed on a project, get experience when on that project. - Few people to learn from - Some people get promoted before they're ready due to tenure with the firm which results in poor management. - If you're good, management will take advantage of that and give you as much work as possible. (80+ weeks.) It is not uncommon to work every weekend and on vacations. You have to try very hard to find a team that recognizes work/life balance and a need to recharge.

2.0
Jun 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good name recognition, training and development opportunities and resources, good level of client contact

Cons

Very political, no respect for personal life, long hours, employees are sometimes disrespected by management. Work is often not of a strategic nature. Of course, this varies very much by your group and is largely dictated by how the partner of your group treats his/her team. Compensation not commensurate with what you are expected to put in.

4.0
Jan 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As the first job out of school, this job is great. It really teaches professionalism, instills a hard work ethic, and even though you feel underpaid, the firm pays you more than your friends. When you start the job, there is a bunch of people who are the same age as you so it's easy to make work friends. The best part about this job is the people (not necessarily management, moreso your start class). Earning vacation is easy to do, and also easy to max out on. The firm usually gives two or three extra holidays a year so that you can take the week between Christmas and new years off (there is usually a firm shutdown).

Cons

You work long hours and the hours are very inconsistent. It's hard to plan dinner dates with friends or significant others because your schedule gets very unpredictable at times. Expect your friends and/or significant other to not understand your schedule and possibly distance themselves because of this. There is very little gratitude when working in public accounting. While management tries their best to compensate their staff for hard work, they really only give bonuses to those who work long hours. That being said, there is no compensation for efficient workers, and, in turn, management really only ends up compensating those who are probably inefficient. Scheduling needs a lot of work. People get scheduled by a project's annual hours and not by the timing of those hours, so you could end up getting scheduled on projects that cause your schedule to have three projects overlap at once. When you bring it up to deployment, deployment is slow in responding.

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