PwC reviews

Coming in, they tell you the way things are through rose colored glasses. It is dishonest at best. They do the same thing after every tax season. Telling you fairy tales of endless new hires and system improvements. They are understaffed, yet somehow will find a way to be even further understaffed next year. The partners try to validate the staffing levels by noting that everybody is still taking their vacation days. That's probably more of a reflection of how little everyone cares about getting their work done. If you stay for too long(3+ years), you get trapped. You only have WMTS knowledge, which is pretty specific. You won't be able to find another tax job for similar pay, because you've now been promoted. So you either leave and take a pay cut, or stay and continue a miserable life. Or you can go to EY to do the exact same miserable thing. They will tell you that you are expected to work 300 hours of overtime during tax season and that this is figured into your pay. So if your salary is 50k, you really make about 43k before overtime. Except you actually work more like 500 hours of overtime. So you now make 40k before overtime. For the amount of stress - and it's a lot - I don't think it's worth it. Dealing with the client and beneficiaries sucks. There's no other way to put it. The people that you work with will complain endlessly about everything. "The catering isn't healthy. We can't eat tacos every night." So they hire new caterers with a focus on healthier options. "The food is so bland. They never have any good food. I want something cheesy." The same people complain when ordering out, which is rude because they are essentially complaining about their coworkers. Order your own damn food if you don't want what we're having! If you're on an engagement that hasn't ventured into 2009 yet, you have to print everything. Like all else, the printers suck. So you become a low level mechanic during your time working in WMTS. You also develop some mad stapling skills. On the other hand, your intern probably can't staple six pages together so you have to use your mad stapling skills more often than you'd prefer. Did I mention that summers are no better than the winter? You don't work the same hours, but you find yourself being just as busy. This is when a lot of people are quitting so you have to handle more than your usual account load. The type of work is also a lot less motivating. I would much rather spend my time cranking out tax returns than doing data projects. Don't get me wrong, they need done, but my point is that it's no picnic working in WMTS over the summer. Pam Morse.

Horrible place to work if you have a family to take care of. They don't care if you have someone you have to take care of at all; I had a manager tell me "Find someone else to take care of your responsibilities." Really? You're going to tell me to find someone else to take care of my kids? There is absolutely no work/life balance, sure they talk it up and say they have a great system in place, but it is just a façade, nothing but a lie. This is a great job if you are fresh out of college with no obligations and can work late, but if you are starting new but a little older, they have no compassion or understanding. Kept getting schedule 2 1/2- 3 hours from my home. When you have to travel 2 1/2 hours and have to be home by 8pm, that means you have to leave around 5:30. I asked if they could schedule me on clients that were closer to where I lived so I could spend more time in the office (which they did have) but they refused to accommodate my request. If you are in your mid 30's starting there be prepared to work with a lot of obnoxious people in there 20's, the company is pretty much run by inexperienced people with no heart. Also, my first 5 months after I started consisted of being "available." I sat around in the office for 8 hours a day waiting to see if anyone needed my help. I got paid to do nothing, which might sound good, but I also learned nothing and gained no experience.