PricewaterhouseCoopers Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Teamwork, positive attitude and learning opportunities

Cons

Pressure and lack of work-life balance

Pros

Provides good learning in a short period of time and constantly challenging

Cons

It gets hard to balance work and life.

Pros

Challenging / competitive environment provided a great place to learn and grow a career. Also really nice people that care about your career.

Cons

Work / life balance is sometimes difficult in public accounting, but this is always the case for any place you work

Advice to Senior Management

I would try to not make it a requirement for people interested in making partner to have to work in a different city first

Pros

I work with smart people

Cons

They make me pay for my own lunches when I travel on company business, and their is no longer any work life balance. I was once penalized in my performance appraisal for not being available after work hours...it was Thanksgiving.

Advice to Senior Management

Practice what you preach and understand who is actually generating the revenues for your company.

Pros

Great variety and opportunities available

Cons

No work life balance at PwC

Advice to Senior Management

Balance workloads better

Pros

Great place to work -- work life balance, great on resume, smart colleagues, team environment

Cons

Sometimes long hours, hierarchy is apparent in dealing with people

Advice to Senior Management

Compensation is not at par with other consulting companies

Pros

Great feedback, and ability for upward mobility is great. PwC also took a great approach with minimum layoffs with the hope of retaining top talent.

Cons

Pay tends to be a little lower than peers. Raises and promotions only happen once per year. Bonuses are some what small.

Advice to Senior Management

Complete review cycles twice a year for promotion. Also, give more transparency on what it takes to make partner, begin the partner funnel earlier in career.

Pros

good work-life balance in my area

Cons

Poor moral now with recent layoffs and feeling more are pending

Advice to Senior Management

Become more active in promoting the firm.

Pros

PwC is a great resume builder and a great place to work right out of college. You will definitely learn a lot while working there and be able to work anywhere you'd like once you've decided to leave.

Cons

Terrible work/life balance, cannot trust upper management, sexist office (very much an Old Boys Club place to work), promotion based on how well a partner likes you rather than the quality of your work or how much your clients like you

Advice to Senior Management

Management should focus more on their employees, listen to employee feedback and reward high achieving individuals. Management should also treat others they way they would have liked to have been treated before they made it to where they are now.

Pros

Lots of talented individuals
Variety of work available
General autonomy
Flexible work schedules
Pretty good admin support
Decent T&E reporting

Cons

Leadership challenged
Political ends justify the means
No unified vision
Limited belief in teaming
Inviduals not teams
Too much input

Advice to Senior Management

360 degree feedback
Quit setting unrealistic forecasts
Enpower people
Develop a leadership that people can rally behind
Fix the compensation model to reflect teaming and not just individual partner needs