PricewaterhouseCoopers Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

It is a great place to work with very caring people, good policies and strong leadership. Thanks ! ! !

Cons

There are no immididate cons that coming to mind when thinking about the company. I have had a very good experience.

Advice to Senior Management

It is a great place to work with very caring people, good policies and strong leadership. Thanks ! ! !

Pros

Great place to start your career
As long as you outperform everyone in your year, you will be recognized and will be rewarded

Cons

People with egos
No work life balance
Need to compensate more for people who live in major cities (Ex. NYC)

Pros

The firm encourages personal flexibility. People can easily take care of personal matters during work outs. Great balance overall for everyone.

Cons

People are worked to hard. Management should try to hire more people and reduce the hours of current staff or try to give higher salaries.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to pay better rasies to distinguish between high perfromers and average performers to encourage high perfromerance in the firm.

Pros

Smart colleagues
Great knowledge sharing
Exposure to a variety of topics

Cons

Below market compensation compared to peers.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase market based compensation

Pros

I can't speak to advisory, tax, and othe client services as I work in internal firm services (marketing, HR, etc). But my opinions pretty much echo the other reviewers.

The best thing about working here are the perks and the ability to work remotely.

Cons

Like other reviewers say - they work you, and they work you hard! Even in internal services you are expected to take on additional projects, other than your main role. The firm seems to have a no temp policy which means everyone is expected to buck up and work on other projects. Im not sure why they can't just hire some temps to take care of some of the work. Though PwC gives generous amount of time to vacation, its difficult to take time off with the amount of work everyone has. I haven't had time off in almost 9 months!

After a few years, the hype of the perks wear off and you really want to look externally for a job, where mgmt appreciates your contributions and your needs and isn't afraid to add some resources (like temps) to help out the team.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your employees more
Look to hire temps to ease the workload

Pros

Fantastic learning and training opportunities, intelligent co-workers who are willing to coach others, great reputation, interesting clients and projects, great people

Cons

They do not compensate their workers properly (salary and bonus), and in some groups it is easy to get caught in the cog (put on project after project with long hours)

Advice to Senior Management

It is becoming increasingly difficult to make partner, with competent professionals at the senior manager/director level for 7+ years. It is difficult to keep staff members motivated when partner seems so far off and short-term compensation is so low compared to other options with similar (or even better) work-life balance. I think the model needs to be reassessed.

Pros

Great learning opportunities; excellent benefits

Cons

Hours are way too long; pay is horrible; benefits should be the same across all lines of service but aren't; terrible place for working mothers; the firm "offers" flex work arrangements but doesn't allow everyone in all lines of service to use them.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow all lines of service to use the so called great benefits that are offered.

Pros

Great place to lear and work with top-notch clients

Cons

Large, bureaucratic, difficult to achieve work-life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Management is mostly doing the right things. There would be long term benefits to reducing budgeted utilization rates to permit staff to invest more time in skill development.

Pros

You get your cpa hours and get some network.

Cons

You stuck with auditor label if you stay too long

Advice to Senior Management

Try to find to pay better for your associates.

Pros

- Communication among all staff levels is encouraged
- Networking helps one achieve career placement flexibility

Cons

- Long hours occasionally
- Projects that you are staffed on by HR aren't always ones of personal choice

Advice to Senior Management

- Encouraging work of high quality should be coupled with encouraging more resources available for staff