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Hi. I'm a final year btech student, and I recently got an offer from PwC India for the post of Sr. Analyst, with the package of 4.5lpa fixed + some yearly performance bonus. How should I expect me to be my career graph in pwc? Promotions, work culture, work life balance, basically any kind of insight will be appreciated.
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There isn’t a project that doesn’t require 12+ hour days every day, including weekends. I work at this pace for months on end with no break between projects. It’s taking a toll on my health. Producers are steam rolled and I truly don’t think other disciplines understand or care. There isn’t a way to put into words here how truly bad it has become.
Is it this bad at every agency? I am concerned about giving up my tenure but I can’t do this anymore.
Who is saying yes for you? Who is building your timelines? Have you tried to push back on these demands harder? Obviously production requires long hours from time to time but not like this.
I dunno, time to start setting firm
boundaries and saying “no, thats not workable” with specific reasoning to back that up. Carve out more time for yourself to recover and find a better situation.
If they end up firing you, great — you can claim unemployment and get severance while you find the next thing. You wont get that by quitting.
Good luck.
Do you happen to work at Digitas Health too? Of all the agencies I’ve worked at, and as a freelancer, I’ve worked at a lot, DH is the only place I’ve experienced where producers are second guessed, undermined, and unsupported to an astoundingly gaslit degree that I thought I was me. Until I asked colleagues and they confirmed it too.
I’m sorry that you’re being exploited and under appreciated. At this moment in time, freelance producers are having a hell of a time booking gigs. More producers than assignments. Agencies are leaning hard on staff to take on more and more to avoid hiring extra help. At least this is the NY market. If you do want to go freelance my one suggestion is to make sure you have savings that can cover you for at LEAST 9 months. Good luck!
I am interested about this feedback. I didn’t realize producers felt this way.
You should stay, especially if you are respected. It's not easy to find work.
Are you acting as the Head of Production or reporting into one? How is your relationship with senior creative leaders? It definitely sounds like there are some cultural and ways of working issues but these are also industry wide problems
I’m sorry! I feel your pain. I was encouraged at one point in my career to ask senior leadership for POV more often, (to help push back client & Account, etc). I think you should do the same. I hope your HOP is accessible?
eventually I told myself that if all these people above me are so smart/getting paid bigger bucks, they need to help us find solutions. Before that I was getting bulldozed by Account or PM. Everyone shut up pretty quick when I started to escalate to my HOP asking for guidance & BA head more often & Account began to understand process more, how long certain things take. It’s not worth your health! However the market is awful right now for freelance especially. I hope you can find a way to push back & get some balance maybe still in your current role? All you have to do is offer options with some rationale. Feel free to DM me. Good luck.
Line up a job before leaving. Freelance (10 years now) is brutal right now, plus so many senior level people were just laid off. Again, keep your job and try to line up one before taking the leap. Trust me.