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Elena Bajic
2006
3.8
Recommend to a friend
82%
Say this is a great place to work
75%
Proud to have on resume
85%
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Overpaid and out of touch.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
Compensation based more on how well you're liked vs how well of a worker you are.
Employee - Senior Associate/Consultant
The culture is very much "Do what senior management says or you don't matter."
Employee - Manager
Partner promotions seemed to be based on popularity contests rather than who could deliver the business. This culture crept into reviews of more junior staff as well. Terrible work/life balance. Not sure how the firm makes the Best Place for Working Morhers list when PwC mothers are working until midnight on a regular basis.
Employee - Manager
Leadership doesn't put the firm before selves.
Employee - Manager
Compensation not competitive with other consulting firms.
Employee - Manager
Strong reputation for tax & financial advisory engagements. Less so for audit. It seems the company has many silos as some partners are unfamiliar with other partners' work.
Employee - Partner
New strategy is not well designed
Employee - Partner
Not a leadership team
Employee - Partner
Good reputation
Employee - Manager
Rotten leadership
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Since PwC US acquired PwC Mexico, the commitment of the firm to their employees has dropped.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
As it is right now is a selfish culture.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
The underlying reason to work for such a firm will depend directly on the partner and team you are working with. While I have worked with other firms with a far better culture, since PwC is so large, it will directly depend on the team you are with. One specific issue is the conflicting culture of 'Up or Out' vs 'Partners protecting their Turf.' While I have no issues with an Up or Out culture, the environment of other firms I have worked with actually support the 'Up', while in my experience in PwC, some (not all) of the Partner's were more concerned about taking credit, playing consultants against each other and using people on the bench to execute on projects while not giving them credit (thus, inflating their P&L, but not giving credit to the consultants). While i would like to say (or hope) that this isn't a common issue in this firm or other firms in the industry, I think it will directly depend on the team/business unit you are working with.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
The culture is misaligned due to select partner's personal agendas & in fighting.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Known as professional and very large.
Employee - Associate/Consultant
PwC is not a consulting firm. My manager told me explicitly "we're an audit firm at heart", and it shows in the daily experience working there. Many times you're forced to turn down lucrative and interesting projects or alter their scope to avoid conflict with audit clients. And when such a huge majority of the employees and revenue within the company come from tax and audit, consulting is often overlooked or de-prioritized. It's extremely difficult to make an impact or feel like you matter in an organization with close to 200,000 employees worldwide. And the bureaucracy and red tape that follow every little detail of how you execute on a daily basis are awful. Producing excellent content and serving your clients often felt like secondary priorities behind always recording adequate documentation of correspondence or other "risk management" practices and stuff I couldn't possibly have cared less about, but firm leadership felt was necessary to maintain compliance and independence. This is another example of where the dedication to the audit side of the firm stood out far above the desire to do great consulting work.
Employee - Associate/Consultant
Yet another example of the audit focus driving the rest of the business. They prefer to weight base compensation more heavily versus bonus so that their expenses are more or less set in advance and no surprises come up. Bonuses were downright pathetic compared to what I earned at my previous firm before we were acquired by PwC, or what my friends and colleagues at other firms earn.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Fantastic investment in its people. I feel appreciated, I have a very flexible work situation, and I work on very interesting and challenging projects with top clients. I see this as a career, not just a 5 year burn and churn.
Employee - Principal/VP/Director
Very forward thinking, and very transparent.