PwC reviews

Politics and cliques. If you're not in a clique shared be a partner or senior manager, you can forget about major promotions or bonuses. This was the over-whelmingly negative aspect of PwC in New York City, but it did not carry over to other branches. There was an enormous amount of competition between staff to be put on the best projects, the top clients, or to performs certain types of work or skills. The staff who was chosen to perform this work was chosen based not on the historical quality of that employee's work, but rather how good of friends they were with the project's manager.

The Advisory practice is still being built, which would lead one to believe staff would have many kinds of opportunities, but this is not the case. Management only cares about staffing people with relevant professional experience on a specific type of project. In consutling, of course, you need to have relevant professional experience to solve client problems, but is this really the case at a level below manager? Very few managers and above care to do on the job training. So, you're out of luck if you are looking to grow professionally into a different career track or don't have much professional experience.