PricewaterhouseCoopers – “Short view springbord, nothing else.”

Pros

PwC in general is probably one of the biggest name in the area of accounting in the World, it's great to have it on your resume, as a springboard.
In France, most of managers are concerned about your balance between life and work and recognize your involvement. Most of employees except partners are very kind to each other and general behaviour is quite good.

Cons

In France, Advisory partners are just money nerds who don't understand why they should try to keep their better employees instead of pushing them away. Money you get from your hard work is not enough compared to what they bill, and mostly compared to what concurrence can give you. Don't expect blackberry (instead they give your personnal mobile phone number to customers), food tickets and great staff days, in France every thing is kept for optimising partners benefits.
They will recognized your hard good work but will keep explain that those hard time do not allow them to give you 5% salary increase. It's like being a children at school, the imagine you have a brain but keep thinking you don't have one, that you can't make decisions on your own, that you don't have any common sense of responsability and professionnal involvment. They don't respect you from what kind of human being you are, but from kind of billing ressource you are. I'm very sad to say that, because 90% of the company really deserve to be considered better than today.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't think associates are children, stay honest with them.
Look at direct concurrence when you ask yourself why no more candidates are applying at Advisory.
Invest in the company instead of keeping everything for you, otherwise your company will stay 4th or worst in France forever.