PwC reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,519 total reviews)
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Mohamed Kande

77% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

PwC has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 75,519 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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2.0
Nov 4, 2009

Truth

Recommend
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Pros

Good for resume after 2-3 years with CA/CPA, easy to find another job.

Cons

Terrible office politics. Promotions based on sucking up to the partners upstairs, not based on your true objective performance as an individual. No Work/Life Balance - in busy season u'll be worked like a dog till midnight, with no overtime pay, just so that you can meet an arbitrary deadline that doesn't actually exist. At ratification meetings, you are compared against your peers, there is a tonne of backstabbing that occurs behind the scenes. U frequently have 8 different managers asking 8 different things of u. You are always treated like a piece of meat thrown around between all the different managers who only care about their selfish selves and dont want to know about that fact that you have other client commitments. U are always making up time - if u go on sick day or a volunterring activity, u are expected to make up for the hours u missed even though it was not your fault. Staffing of jobs is terrible - the charge out rates are unrealistic, they are never recoverable from the client. Jobs are frequently understaffed just so that recovery can look better for the partner on the job. U are expected to work on weekends - personal life suffers massively, on top of this u don't get paid. U are expected to contribute to the firm initiatives even though you are on dirt pay, and there is no incentive to drive the process.

4.0
Nov 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

PwC, just like most accounting firms, offers a stability above all other things. All in all it is a great firm, as far as culture goes. There are many opportunities to advance but you have to like working a lot doing tedious and unexciting tasks for many many hours. If you thrive in a small fish big pond atmosphere then you will do well here. It is a young firm which makes it a good place for an entry level candidate.

Cons

The work is tedious and unexciting and often times I asked myself if I were adding any true value. As with any large corporate culture office politics came in to play sometimes.

5.0
Nov 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Of all the places that I have worked...PwC really makes you feel important. They paid great bonuses during the past year which is great considering the fact that most of the Big 4 paid little to any bonus.

Cons

Very intense place to work...work/life balance is limited but this is very consistent with the Big 4.

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