PwC reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,382 total reviews)
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Mohamed Kande

78% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

PwC has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 75,382 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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75K reviews
1.0
Nov 16, 2019

Worst place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Work anywhere in the US

Cons

If you always have to search for projects and mostly you end up doing work which you don't like because you have to maintain 80% of billing to get a hike or promotion. Management always sees how much money you bring to the firm. If you get Indian managers you are screwed mostly, not all of them. they always try to get Indian resources.

1.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are great people among all the rotten apples at PwC.

Cons

Be prepared to be tossed under the bus regularly by seniors, managers, directors, and even partners who can’t take responsibility for mistakes. And no matter how hard you work, want to learn, and be part of the team, your fate there boils down to whether the chief likes you or not. If not, no matter what, you’ll be squeezed out and you will never know why. Beware of HR. They are not there to help you. That team is made up of the worst kind of people. And don’t try to figure out what they do all day. No one really knows.

2.0
Jan 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great job to start your career with or add to your resume to build on your career. While there is are an excessive amount of administrative tasks, it is also an opportunity to better one's time management and attention to detail. It's easy to miss something but you are constantly reminded (multiple times a day, by multiple people - even after it has been completed and confirmed) when something important is missing. The work that you do is brainlessly easy if you have any prior work experience or actually read a book in college. The people employed by the SDC often have a friendly demeanor and are very stylish. To move up in this environment very little technical skill is required, though it is "considered". What's valued above all is one's ability to socialize and network. Drinking is heavily encouraged.

Cons

This is a soul-sucking environment that antithetically promotes "integrity", "diversity & inclusion", "team work", "caring", etc while also encouraging employees to snoop and report on fellow team members, promotes employees for a diversity quota instead of a merit system, ostracizes struggling employees instead of coaching and developing, and encourages a culture of favoritism. Real-time feedback is non-existent. Employees will receive feedback three months after the fact for a prior period in the form of a Snapshot, without giving any direct guidance along the way, and remind you that "none of this should be a surprise". Talking to HR is a joke because they will only encourage you to find other employment as opposed to listening to unethical behaviors regarding favoritism and bias. The culture is very young and geared towards new hires, which is great, except the people who stay with the company and become supervisors and managers have no practical business experience and share a Gossip Girl mentality that is more apparent on some teams than others, but is present in all. They are looking for a certain type at this company and that certainly wasn't me. I only regret taking the feedback seriously because no matter what I did at this company my efforts were not recognized by my senior manager, though my quality of work exceeded that of my peers some senior specialists.

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