PwC reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,450 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 75,450 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 Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jun 7, 2016
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Pros

They pay well. They put on numerous social events to blind you to how dysfunctional they are. Some nice people in places, including some of the most senior partners. You won't feel the knives in your back until the end is near.

Cons

I'll preface this by saying I spent many years at another Big4, so this commentary isn't coming from a place of, "you just don't understand the partner track!" etc. The good folks can't motivate most of the directors or managing directors to do the right thing. This is particularly glaring in business development. The account leads couldn't give a care in the world about increasing the billable hours to the client unless *they* generated the work. The interaction between Risk Assurance and Advisory is more like the interaction between Goldman Sachs and JPMorganChase. One group will actively kill deals significant to your "team" because they don't want to "deal" with the independence issues, or deal with you, or talk to the client, etc. Never worked at a place that would so easily leave six figures on the table because of infighting. There have been a lot of hires with no consulting experience that have been installed as Managing Directors, and don't understand how the sales cycle operates. Do you like people that leave you review notes that say, "You should put a comma here", rather than just turning on track changes and putting in a comma? You'll love PwC. Do you like to spend 20-30 actual hours of your time putting together slide decks for $7,000 worth of work that PwC isn't even qualified to do? This is your place! I enjoyed cleaning fryers at a fast food restaurant many years ago. I liked tossing rotten produce out at a big grocery in the middle of the night. I did not like the vicious, backstabbing, dishonest culture at PwC.

3.0
Jun 2, 2016

Up or out with a twist

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Pros

Learned a lot Some nice people Some competent people Attempt to a good culture Paid me well Good training opportunities Some interesting engagements

Cons

The partner will fire you with a smile as soon as your utilization goes down because "we run a [failing] business" Huge discrepancy between the principles they claim and the way they actually treat people People are mostly judged on their ability to buddy up with the partners and sell to clients Go-getters who create problems where there are none to get more client hours get the upper hand Up or out strategy makes the place a snake pit The obsession with growth makes partners take any lucrative engagement instead of aiming for a leading position as a thought leader and preparing for the future

2.0
Feb 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

there are two benifits which I found till now 1)salary will be credited at the month end. 2)sat and sun are off depends on your project.

Cons

1)politics 2)bad hike 3)reimbursement issues 4)if you want to learn microsoft office like excel,power point,word then this can be a best place,over here they dont care about your technical capabilities,maximum time you will be working on excel,powerpoint,word. 5)Learning curve is almost ZERO since the clients are stupid.for clients it is more important to show your face rather then completing task. 6)company policies are worse. 7) food is bad.

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