PwC Reviews

Former Employee – worked at PwC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Healthy work environment with a competitive peer group

Cons – Remuneration is not that competitive

Advice to Senior Management – Need to work on developing and expanding client base

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PwC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Superb services to employees, good salary structure and nice office environment. Also provides night car drop facilities. Salary is excellent as per standards in Kolkata.

Cons – Too much work pressure and no regard for employee's personal life. Too much monotonous work and no such audit experience gained. Slowly becoming more Bengali centric.

Advice to Senior Management – Try concentrating more on Quality than Quantity!! If concentration is less on booking of hours, the work quality will improve drastically and the escalations would also reduce.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PwC full-time for more than a year

Pros – high quality people and lots of challenging roles

Cons – less mobility within the firm

Advice to Senior Management – nothing as such

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PwC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Loved the atmosphere. The boss was very approachable and knowledgeable and brought out the best in us. The team was also well knit and fun to work with. In all a great place to be with a very good balance of work and life

Cons – The pay could have been better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at PwC full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1. Good client base.
2. Brand Name
3. Lots of training

Cons – 1. No work life balance
2. Low Pay

Advice to Senior Management – Please make the appraisal process more clear

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PwC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Global best practices shared; HR tries to maintain transparency; some best in class peers, good culture in some business units; if you are lucky and can find a good partner your growth would be unlimited; good training programs in some creas

Cons – Partner is the king and thus your career depends a lot on his whims and fancies; although firm is very global, opportunities are limited to the local office and depends a lot on the nature of the project; in consulting work life balance is difficult to maintain

Advice to Senior Management – Create a system through which a consultant or a junior staff can also have a say in his work profile and assessment; a feed back mechanism for senior staff should be put in place in order to create transparency

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at PwC full-time for less than a year

Pros – No Firing. No Team. No Learning

Cons – Only Junk work from US office
Recruitment is completely wrong, always takes people for wrong roles.
No Learning
No Client Interactions
No Proper technical work
No growth without politics
Company is growing as straight building not as tree. I mean only same people get promoted yearly one above other.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow like tree and respect other people talents.
Think out of box and take inputs from other people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PwC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – TRUST the people they work for;
Have PRIDE in what they do; and
ENJOY the people they work with

Cons – Sometimes travelling can be a little hectic

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at PwC as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great people, good competition, good salaries, decent working hours

Cons – Boring work(desk job), no proper work for interns and lesser seats than required

Advice to Senior Management – please make a proper work profile for interns!

Current Employee – been working at PwC full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1. Encouraging and supportive senior management to take up challenging assignments,
2. World of opportunities to handle clients belonging to different industries,
3. Handsome pay packages.

Cons – 1. One needs to be smart enough to be responsible to manage his own work-life balance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company