PwC reviews

There are many older people which refuse to get with the new generation and prefer to do things old school, which hinders getting the job done quickly (which is what you are always expected to do, everything is a fire-drill). They claim that they promote from within and fill most of their positions with people from within, but if you are more qualified than someone which has tenure for a position, dont even try to get it because they wont even consider you, until you have atleast a couple of years proving how good you are. Of course the 360 degree feedback they use virtually makes it impossible because regardless of how good you are there will always be 1 person that does not like you for whatever reason. And that when put up against brown-nosers will cause you to lose every time! Fake people thrive here. There are so many onder cover racist people. We had to pay 80.00/ month for garage parking. Many people were given the opportinity to become Senior Associates or Managers if they passed an exam that they were not given any time to study for. Also turn over is high among Associate, Senior Associates,a nd even Managers.

--Virtually none of the Staff, most with Accounting/Finance majors and backgrounds, understand the Firm's stupifyingly confusing and non-intuitive finance systems. They are not trained in it and leave most of the background financial work to be done by the Executive Assistants - none are CPAs and most do not have a college degree. Even most of the Staff who actually use the systems do not understand them; mistakes are rampant. --The Help Desk for general assistance has been outsourced to India; the Financial Help Desk has been outsourced to Uruguay. People in those groups are not members of the Firm, yet have access to our confidential and financial information and systems. --The Assistants are basically slaves, and they let you know it. The raises are poor, never even covering cost of living increases. Lying, competition, favoritism and back-stabbing at the Assistant level is a way of life. Morale has been in the basement for years owing to the lack of inclusion, but by now it is in the sub-basement.