PwC reviews

This is a soul-sucking environment that antithetically promotes "integrity", "diversity & inclusion", "team work", "caring", etc while also encouraging employees to snoop and report on fellow team members, promotes employees for a diversity quota instead of a merit system, ostracizes struggling employees instead of coaching and developing, and encourages a culture of favoritism. Real-time feedback is non-existent. Employees will receive feedback three months after the fact for a prior period in the form of a Snapshot, without giving any direct guidance along the way, and remind you that "none of this should be a surprise". Talking to HR is a joke because they will only encourage you to find other employment as opposed to listening to unethical behaviors regarding favoritism and bias. The culture is very young and geared towards new hires, which is great, except the people who stay with the company and become supervisors and managers have no practical business experience and share a Gossip Girl mentality that is more apparent on some teams than others, but is present in all. They are looking for a certain type at this company and that certainly wasn't me. I only regret taking the feedback seriously because no matter what I did at this company my efforts were not recognized by my senior manager, though my quality of work exceeded that of my peers some senior specialists.

Where do I start?... First, on a side note, Risk Assurance = IT Audit. Don't let the branding confuse you. - Absolutely 0 work/life balance. Ridiculous hours during busy season. The Be Well, Work Well program is essentially a joke. While HR is doing their best, management simply doesn't allow for the flexibility the program promises. - Toxic upper management. I'm a first year and I'm already being treated with disrespect—sarcastic comments, unfriendly responses, my worth being defined solely based on my productivity, etc. Although I haven't experienced it yet personally, I've seen some of my more experienced team members ripped into by upper management. - The work is completely uninspiring. Pretty much everyday I feel like I'm learning nothing of value that can be applied outside of audit. The real challenge of the job lies in working 55+ hour weeks during busy season on monotonous, repetitive work. Summary: From my conversations with people throughout the Risk Assurance practice, a large majority of people hate this job and are doing it solely for the experience. My advice: Don't sell yourself out to this company because it'll "look good on your resume". If you're reading this now, you either received an offer or you're thinking about joining the Risk Assurance practice—and that alone means your skills are in high-demand and you're motivated. Don't waste those skills and motivation slaving away 55+ hours a week, cranking out an endless stream of joyless work with toxic management breathing down your back, and all the while not really gaining any skills marketable outside of audit. All in all, you're better than Risk Assurance at PwC—best of luck to you in your career search, friend!