PwC Employee Reviews & Ratings

Slow professional growth if joined as junior

Long working hours and minimum employee benefits

The current environment lacks work-life balance and is constrained by unrealistic timelines, which may contribute to undue pressure on the team.

Work load may increase at times due to client delivery.

Long hours and insufficient resources

As an Audit Associate at PwC, I experienced one of the most grueling work environments of my career. The busy season is relentless — you’re expected to completely sacrifice your personal life for nearly four months out of the year. Late nights until 2–3 AM are not uncommon, and weekends are often treated as regular workdays. What made the experience worse was the lack of support from senior team members and management. Rather than fostering a collaborative environment, seniors and managers frequently overloaded associates with excessive tasks while providing minimal guidance. When help was offered, it often came with condescending attitudes, dismissive remarks, or outright belittling. There was little to no regard for employee well-being. Despite putting in long hours and significant effort, I was laid off after two years with little explanation or appreciation for the sacrifices I made. Overall, my time at PwC left me burned out and disillusioned. I would not recommend this role to anyone who values work-life balance, a supportive team, or long-term career growth.

Repetitive and often long-term projects can lead to burnout quickly. Fast turnaround of employees can add some difficulties to team dynamics.

overtime working hours required sometime

There’s a lot of silos, and this is a time of transition.

Long hours and low pay

Work pressure and poor work life balance

Getting burned by corporate politics as an Associate

None at this time, onboarding could be a bit better

Difficult to get time off

I think PWC is the worst among all the big 4s, bad work culture and compensation is also not at par with other big 4

Stress full timelines sometimes also

Not as high pay. Harder to climb up in your first years as promotion steps is the same for everyone in the first few years

Terrible working hours, endless no-pay work

Salary is too average at the beginning

Continual pressure to sell more work and put in more hours

Does not promote an inclusive working environment. Senior management is not receptive of different approaches and thoughts of mid joiners.

Narcissistic partners, self entitled graduates

Very stressful and times with no work-life balance

1. It's a Offshore Service Delivery Center, So you majorly interact with ETs and not Clients. 2. Work pressure is too much... No work life balance. 3. Micromanagement can make your like much worse.

Low pay in comparison to competitors Lots of cuts recently has damaged morale

Lower pay compared to other Big 4

Parking issue and long work hours

Career roadmap Structured learning path

Consulting is stressful work. If you're on three clients, you have to deliver to all of them, AND you still have to deliver within PwC. It's not for everyone.

Large organization and can lost in the crowd

Steady job but no room for growth if you aren’t on the client side. You can be performing at the next level for years but if there’s no position open you cannot be promoted.

Very fast paced, expect to work a lot

Poor resourcing issues since last year, seniors overloaded with work

Long work hours for minimal pay

Slow growth and frequent changes

Salary hike less. Most of the times single digit

Long wait time between annual review and compensation update

Long working hours during the busy season.

work culture especially in supply chain advisory team is very bad

Tough work-life balance in PwC

Previously they used to Give 700rs Shift allowance for People who are coming to office. Now they are giving only 500rs.

Challenging workload - sometimes hard to maintain work life balance

Toxic culture. Run if you can

Long hours which can be quite tiring

Self-management and low client work.

- Hierarchical - Poor team-wide communication - Culture has changed following restructuring

Pay is below industrial standards Toxic management Absolutely no work life balance

Worklife balance, hectic work hours

There is limited growth overtime

I have not worked there long enough to notice anything. I love this company.