PwC reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(75,321 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 75,321 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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5.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a great place to work for entry level accountants looking to gain a vast amount of knowledge in a short amount of time. I would vouch that PWC is a good place to work for other than entry level, but I would not want to step outside of what I know (being entry level). The atmosphere is also very comfortable to be in, and you will find it very easy to make friends in no time. I don't know where my career will take me, but for now I see no reason that it won't be with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Cons

It's not so much the downsides of working at PWC, but instead the downsides of being an accountant in general--long hours, busy days, etc. But then again, everybody should know and accept this fact before they puruse this career.

1.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It is a nice thing to possess on your resume - the "union stamp" of the finance profession. Per the Wiki, "None of the Big Four accounting firms is a single firm. Each is a network of firms, owned and managed independently, which have entered into agreements with other member firms in the network to share a common name, brand and quality standards. Each network has established an entity to co-ordinate the activities of the network. In two cases (KPMG and Deloitte Touche Tomatsu), the co-ordinating entity is Swiss, and in two cases (PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young) the co-ordinating entity is a UK limited company. Those entities do not themselves practise accountancy, and do not own or control the member firms."

Cons

No career guidance or roadmapping, very poor modeling of leadership behaviors by senior management. Consider Michael Lewis' book Moneyball, and the Wiki article "in which he investigated the dramatic success of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's, a baseball team which won consistently despite not being particularly well-funded by Major League Baseball standards. He noted the influence of baseball thinkers such as Bill James on the Oakland front office, which used their arguments to find underrated baseball players. In contrast to other teams which still considered potential players almost entirely on their physical abilities, such as speed and strength, Beane considered prior performance at the college and high school level. This allowed him to find players whose physical skills might have been ordinary, but were still able to play extraordinarily well on the field. James also argued that certain skills, such as the ability to get on base, were equally valuable as the ability to hit, though most baseball decision makers considered the latter to be of more importance. Beane was thus able to find players who were able to provide high value for bargain prices. Lewis determined that these strategies, among others, allowed the relatively cash-poor A's to often outperform much wealthier teams."

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