PwC reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,206 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 75,206 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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Dec 18, 2012
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Pros

Some of the people who work at PwC are genuinely kind and friendly and working with them can be a good experience. However, these people are always dominated by the loud, arrogant types and left unrecognised and demoralised.

Cons

Deeply unfair performance management system, in which the most important trait appears to be a loud, dominant personality and in which office politics and discrimination (particularly against quieter types who get on with their work rather than talk all day) is rife Excessive and unreasonable working hours in which staff are worked like slaves, often under unreasonable pressure. It is usual to have to work at weekends. And, at the end of the year the hardworking people end up with a demoralising negative (and often false) performance review whilst the loud (but often incompetent) ones get promoted. The quality of work often is not great. The firm is increasingly obsessed with budgets and efficiencies and often work is signed off that is poor.

1.0
Sep 17, 2024

Worst Culture

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Pros

Nothing exceptional as compared to others, just a big 4 name attached to it. Nothing like a big 4

Cons

1. They hire you at a high pay and then annual increments are very minimal and no growth opportunities. Nothing like a big 4. 2. They don't treat you like employees, the leadership expects you to have no work life balance and can give you work at even odd hours. Even the onshore team doesn't talk to you nicely or have that respect because that's how the leadership and managers have created a mindset and culture. 3. After a certain level, starting from AM level, you won't have much growth opportunities. There is a biased culture. Since most of the leadership sits in Kolkata, they favour only people sitting there with whom they have good relations. 4. Unprofessional Culture - There is didi bhaiya culture. they professionally call seniors of Kolkata Didi Bhaiya on calls, chats. If you call them by name, you might not mix up well and might end up loosing your promotion to the one who does or might end up offending them, who knows.. lol 4. Although they work with people sitting in US, but their hiring is very unprofessional. They hire people who can't even communicate well with the team sitting in US so sometimes that irritates or frustates onshore team, which ultimately reflects on how they treat AC people.

2.0
Nov 26, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Variety of work (for some). Young work environment, social. Progression path clear.

Cons

A negative environment to work in, plenty of expectation for you to work overtime with no benefit or recognition. Coupled with such a low starting salary this could potentially leave you working at less than the minimum wage. Wave good-bye to your work life balance. Favouritism from senior management is evident, end of year review process is therefore biased also penalised in year-end moderation if you are working on projects in a different department than your team despite having no choice and bringing in revenue. Awesome. High staff turnover. Pay in comparison to all other UK regions is pitifully low. Role models in the company are few and far between, especially females. You have little to no say in whether you travel or not, not ideal if you have children or other commitments outside work - again work life balance is completely compromised. Some team leads/managers should not be in their roles - I have been bullied by some, thrown under the bus by others, had my personal life questioned and been belittled over things beyond my control. Work can be mind-numbingly boring or incredibly stressful.

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