If you are newly grad in Finance or Accounting and would like to have one of the Big-4 companies added to your resume, then yes, join PwC. Once you join, please note that you will be working 18 hours day, get pay no higher than the kind that work at McDonald's (not that anything wrong with working at McDonald, actually you may actually better off working there). If you are joined and have other people from the school or class then you will be OK, otherwise you will be treated like slaves because management and most people work at PwC are clueless when it comes to people management. All they want you to do is "log those hours". Yes, you will be reminded and your manager and "partner" will yell at you for not logging enough hours because that's pretty much how PwC make money. Yes, they are making money by making you working harder and longer hours,
Let me help put things into a better perspective. People would love to work for Google, Amazon, Uber, etc...but have you ever heard of anyone excited about working for the "Firm"? Yes, PwC called itself "the Firm". The should be the first sign that this is not a company but rather more of a cult. You know what happen when you join a cult? Well, eventually, no one made it out alive. Yes, most people at the "firm" are pretty much "lifer" -- they work there most of their professional lives and most likely will die as members of the "Firm". While the company taunt the idea of work-life balance and all that good stuff, but once you are there, that's just a fable and things you hear on TVs that they have turned on around the office. I swear, it might be subliminal messages that they are trying to ingrain in your head.
The folks at PwC are very one dimensional. They only know one thing and one thing only, zero personal skills, zero people skills, zero management skills. Do not expect to have any training or guidance other than those stupid CPE courses that they try to push you to complete every month.
Since this is a SEC regulated company, be aware that if you are a mid-level professional from Bay Area with stocks from your previous employers, get ready to dump all the stocks when joining PwC. Of course, they won't tell you this when you apply for the job, they will only tell you this AFTER you have signed the employment agreement, by that time, you most likely cannot go back to your old job.
