PwC
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PwC is widely considered to be the world's most prestigious and progressive accounting firm. It offers extensive career development opportunities, including formal coaching and mentoring, informal mentoring, excellent trainings, and clear promotion paths. It’s also heavily focused on ESG initiatives and set a carbon neutrality goal for 2030.
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One of the prestigious Big 4 professional services firms, PwC is ideally looking for hardworking, technically sound candidates with a questioning mindset and solid critical-thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills. For students, the firm runs a valuable internship program, offering interns hands-on experience, the ability to network with other interns and senior professionals, and, during winter internships, a good look at what a busy season actually looks like. For its full-time professionals, PwC offers extensive growth and learning opportunities, including numerous trainings, the ability to rotate through different departments, clear promotion paths, and more.
Although long hours are typically required during the busy tax season, it’s very possible to...
About the Company
New York-headquartered professional services firm PwC LLP is the U.S. member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, whose network of firms serve approximately 85 percent of Fortune Global 500 companies and more than 100,000 entrepreneurial and private businesses. In the U.S., PwC has more than 70 offices, employs more than 75,000 people, and booked $24.3 billion in revenues in its latest fiscal year, ending June 30, 2024.
PwC LLP focuses on audit and assurance, tax, and consulting services. Additionally, PwC LLP concentrates on 16 key industries that include but aren’t limited to consumer products, fintech, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and technology; and provides targeted services that include but aren’t limited to cybersecurity and privacy, human resources, deals and forensics. By revenue, it’s the second-largest...
Employee Reviews
- “PwC provides generous vacation and holiday time for everyone. The ability to utilize vacation is great, assuming it’s not during busy season. For tax, this is roughly seven to eight months of the year where we’re able to take time off.”
- “As a high performer, you often find yourself working a lot of hours, making work/life balance more challenging, as there are always opportunities for you to be working. However, I find plenty of time for my kids and family and have the flexibility to ...
Why Work Here
A career in accounting at PwC puts you at the intersection of people, technology, and business insights—helping organizations navigate complexity and drive strategic decisions. Whether in audit or tax, you’ll play a crucial role in delivering quality, transparency, and trust to businesses worldwide.
In Audit Services, you’ll work with cutting-edge technology to perform digitally upskilled audits that prioritize quality and actionable insights for clients. Our innovative approach combines human expertise with powerful technology to enhance efficiency and reimagine the possible in financial reporting.
In Tax Services, you’ll tackle some of the most challenging and intellectually rigorous aspects of accounting—helping global organizations with tax planning, structuring, and compliance. From navigating regulatory complexity to developing innovative tax solutions, you'll work on strategies that shape business decisions on a global scale.
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Getting Hired Here
- “I had one round of interviews that consisted of two parts. The first part was a 30-minute case interview and the second was a 30-minute behavioral interview. Less than two weeks later, I received an answer back. I believe the firm is looking for people who are technically advanced but also very passionate about what they do. They want someone who likes to get involved, ask questions, and be willing to mentor others.”
- “The interview process is very general and allows the firm to place ...
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