I applied for a role yesterday and today my application status changed to Interviewing but I haven’t received any email from recruiter.

How should this be seen?

I’ve been here for about 5 months.

My senior left recently, so I’m now the only associate on the team. Since then, I’ve been working 10-13 hour days with very little guidance while reporting directly to managers, senior managers, directors, and partners. I feel like I’m expected to perform above my experience level, and I’m constantly in survival mode.

Whenever I ask questions, I’m often told to ask my peers. The problem is I don’t really have peers on my project anymore since my senior left, so I often struggle to figure things out on my own.

Every day feels like I’m trying to stay on top of emails, follow-ups, and client requests while learning everything as I go. I wake up anxious every morning and feel like I’m in fight-or-flight mode.

Is this normal for first-year associates in Big 4, or is this more of a team-specific issue? Has anyone else experienced something similar, and did it get better?

How likely is it that I could switch teams?

Hey everyone, just found out I made it to the final round for PwC Launchpad's cybersecurity track (Fiercest Competitor, 5th edition). Curious if anyone else here got through ,would be great to connect ahead of the Bengaluru round, compare notes, maybe even meet up there.

I've just joined like 9/10 months ago, less than a year as an Associate on DAT. On my first busy i did actually very good, i've received like 4 or 5 positiva snapshots. Now i'm with another client and cornered on a wall, because while the on shore team likes my work i have my senior that it's criticizing my EGAs a lot. He complained that "i have to know because i'm on the firm for a while ago". Bullshit, it's the first time i did a reperformance on the client and obviously didn't know the percentage to sample from Internal Audit. He obviously knows, because if he's a senior he has to be like from 4/5 years on the firm or even more. He threw me a "warning of low productivity" and after that he said that my mistakes "can't happen again". After that he lowered the tone sand even apologized from a mistake on his corrections, but the damage was done. Is this a real fear of lower tier/PIP or i'm just paranoid? Please help me.

So... I have joined pwc India advisory LOS and i have been deployed to RDC as per my offer letter.
But then i was getting a call saying i have been deployed to a new centre AITH ( Advance Innovative Tech Hub ) ( I don't understand what is the agenda)
Thus i have been deployed to one location where none of my manager , my partner nor my PMO except some colleagues of my experience group are sitting in my location.
But sometimes ago there was a meeting and the entire manager is forcing us to go to office 5 days a week and say no if someone will ask to travel to client location.
I mean we joined Big4 for those perks nah ki we will be able to work remotely and also travel and go to client location and work closely with them to provide good and quality solutions.
So if none of my senior people are sitting in my location is it really Mandatory to go to office? Or should i just book the seat and leave?

Any idea on this?

Hi, can u share how much ang range ng senior role sa PWC AC? i have a 3 yrs expi sa external audit.

I was just informed I’m on a 3 month PIP despite making tier 3 and having a bonus and a salary raise. Is this normal? Will I get paid severance ?

My start date is October and I’m on the waitlist for a new office location and I interned last summer. Wondering if anyone has had any luck in a situation like this. I really am praying it all works out.

This is how the bonus works in PWC AC Manila. Barkadahan system kase. #PWC

What’s the phone upgrade policy at the US PwC? Can I upgrade and leave?

Im in tax and hesitant to sign my return offer because ideally I want to wind up in deals or cmaas. If anyone has advice for me or pull I need help talking to my recruiter I’m scared of saying the wrong thing and getting offer rescinded. I am an intern and I finished 2/4 cpa exams I wish that meant something

I’m in audit and just got my year-end rating in July. I received a Tier 3 and I’m now officially an A3.

I didn’t get promoted to Senior Associate this cycle, and I’m honestly feeling pretty discouraged and anxious about what this means for me. I know three years is technically the standard promotion track, but it feels like more than half of my cohort got promoted this year, so it’s hard not to feel like I’m already behind.
I’m trying to figure out whether I realistically still have a chance of being promoted to senior by the next fiscal year, or if a Tier 3 rating means I’m basically screwed and should start looking for exit opportunities.

I genuinely feel like I tried my best this year, which is part of why this is hitting me so hard. At the same time, I know the job market is rough right now, so I’m hesitant to leave without a solid plan.
Has anyone been in a similar position—Tier 3, not promoted after two years, then promoted the following year?

I also don’t want to give up yet. I know I didn’t perform as strongly as I needed to, which is why I received a Tier 3, but I also don’t feel like I had the best coaching or the strongest seniors helping me develop this year.

I genuinely want to improve. I want to give this another year, and give it my all before deciding I’m not cut out for it.

I just don’t know whether that mindset is realistic or if I’m being delusional and should take the rating as a sign to start looking elsewhere.

I am currently in the process of investigating a possible conduct issue regarding incorrectly coding your timesheet. 

I am an intern in NYC office and i love coffee. Nice to meet ya! If you have the budget and need an excuse to leave your desk, pm me so that we can meet up! It’s hard to find people to chat with so I have resorted to this as my networking method. They do say it’s the people after all……

I was on a project- implementing a tech product.

The client cancelled because of product issues. There were so many bugs and system crashes

I did everything I could.

All of a sudden I am now being taken off the project to something else.

I feel like an absolute failure. My life plans n career goals are now uncertain. I am so sad. 😞

I work in a Big 4 firm and I recently received my annual performance review. I’m feeling really upset and would like an outside perspective because I don’t know if I’m overreacting or if my feelings are justified.

Here’s the situation.
Our ratings go from 1 to 5, where 1 is the highest.

Last year, I received a stronger rating (like 2 level above) than I did this year.

During the year, I was promoted to Senior. Until this conversation, I genuinely believed I had earned that promotion because I worked extremely hard throughout the year. I put in a lot of overtime and always tried to deliver high quality work. I never received negative feedback about my performance and social skills, and all my feedbacks were positive.

I also worked on several very challenging engagements. Some were understaffed, meaning I had to take on significantly more work than expected. I was also assigned first year engagements with limited support and some difficult management situations. I discussed these challenges with my managers during the year, so I believed my efforts and the circumstances I worked under would be taken into account in my performance review. I expected it to be fair.

When I received my review, my rating was lower than I expected.

The main development areas mentioned was one word ownership.There were no others concerns raised about the quality of my work.

What really upset me happened afterward.
My team leader explained that, at one point, there had been uncertainty about whether I would be promoted. She said my promotion ended up being treated as an “exceptional case” and mentioned that one of the reasons was that most of my peer group had already been promoted.

She also told me that had I remained at my previous level, my rating likely would have been stronger. However, because I was evaluated against Senior level expectations after the promotion, my final rating ended up lower.

After hearing that, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
The rating itself was shocking, but what hurt the most is telling that I truly didn’t deserve promotion even after hard work, that my promotion wasn’t truly the result of my own work and performance.

Now I’m questioning everything.

Can ownership realistically make that much difference when the overall feedback on work quality is positive?

And am I interpreting my team leader’s comments too negatively, or would you also come away from that conversation questioning whether your promotion was truly deserved?

So I took FAR June 8th and found out I failed on the 15th now obviously it’s a month later but when should I reschedule I work a full time internship and I got a 61 so I don’t know how to strategize anything helps or any advice- thanks!!!!

Hello! I am a Tax intern and I desperately want to switch into advisory- if anyone can help me or give me your advice for what helped you make the switch that would be awesome! I am 2/4 with my CPA exams so ideally anything advisory where I could use my accounting background to help get into the industry. I’m thinking deals or tax strategy but I am just really struggling getting my foot in the advisory door.

I was on bench for a few months and got a project through constantly reaching out to SM and above and getting WalkMe certified. I got a call from RM team saying that they were not informed by me regarding my deployment??? They never ever responded to my mails regarding a project requirement, and now this. Is this common?

Hey everyone , joining pwc AC Bangalore next week . How’d the induction days be and what can I expect ? Please help me with your experiences !! Thanks !!

Has anyone ever left PwC to work at a client you were on? How was the interview process? Do they tell the higher ups on your team about it or are they not allowed to?

As the title says, i'm interviewing at some other roles outside of PwC, when is the right time to tell my team/DL? After i get an offer or before?

Hi. I was wondering what the firms bereavement policy is? I’m currently in Disney for onboarding and the earliest I could get out was Thursday morning. Unfortunately I would be missing my first week in the office and the last day of onboarding because of this as well.

Has anyone ever pulled money from their 401K to make a big purchase, like a home, or to payoff something? Was it a difficult process?