Looking to join the PwC M&A practice (DDV). Any insight on the culture? PwC

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DDV Manager here - I think some of the complaints are warranted but if you align yourself with the right partners and directors, your experience won’t resemble those complaints. I am happy to share the names of folks who are solid / folks who you should stay away from.

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This.

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Fast promotion is normal. Working weekends and a ton of over hours as well. You learn nothing substantial that you can ever use anywhere else besides DDV - it’s basically PMO. If you are looking for no private life but fast promotion, do it.

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I feel like we all need a DDV support group. 😂The amount of disdain is shocking but it seems to be the reality. I hope our new leaders (post re-org) are reading this.

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Yes!! Need transparency to be able to quantify and understand. Lots of opportunities with the restructuring. Cultures can’t be fixed
 they grow over time.

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Lol. Literal daily complaints about them on FB. They need bodies but I would stay away.

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Thanks for all your inputs/feedback. I was severely lowballed. I declined the offer.

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DDV Manager here, bad, run away, life's too short to kill yourself over M&A PMO. And if you insist on doing M&A PMO, might as well get paid more over at EYP/D/K/ACN

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My experience has been awful and I am planning my exit as well. There is no way their below market salary can keep me here. It's also a career killer. I honestly wish I never took this offer.

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I’m in the practice. Don’t have any complaints. I will say that I am considered a “top performer” so it helps with getting staffed on more interesting transactions and can work with the better partners. I think that’s true of anywhere but I believe that most complaints come from folks who aren’t given as many interesting opportunities and get stuck on crappy engagements. I think this is true of all consulting but when you think you’re going to be doing cool M&A work and are working long hours on PMO, I can see it taking a lot out of you. If you align with right people and differentiate yourself, there are a lot of great projects and people.

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It's not a sustainable practice to maintain a professional services team where a small cluster of practitioners have good experiences while the rest does not. The "rest" delivers the bulk of revenue and it's not good if your delivery quality drops because of unhappiness and attrition in that layer of people. We've already lost a large FS account and about to lose another CM account for delivery quality issues.

The advice to perform well and find good partners to align with is generally OK, but taking into account how the DDV is doing right now that's not helpful advice. What's the point of staying in an "elite" group in a DDV practice on life support? The sanity of M-D levels are hanging by a thread, the layers below there's no one left except for interns and AC folks. I've connected four people (SA/M/M/SM) the last month for referrals elsewhere, 3/4 have been with the practice for <1 year.

This feels like a rapidly accelerating downward spiral more than anything else. I hope the practice leads realize they need to shift gears to rebuild mode before it's too late.

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If you value wlb don’t do it. Planning my exit now and I’ve been here less than 24 months. I value having a life outside of work, and realized many here don’t.

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There is no such thing as WLB especially on the east coast. Honestly anywhere outside of Texas is dog poo

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Which state are you in? The culture is very different from one state to another. I LOVE the DDV partners in Texas and Cali, very chill, friendly, open to feedback, care about the workload (I had HR call me last year in February asking me if I needed help and wanted to take sometime off because I was doing 58 hrs for three weeks straight so they called to make sure I was ok and not overwhelmed with work). However, I dislike the Boston and NYC partners because they only care about themselves and making money and not about their teams.
So again, it really depends on who you are working with. I recently declined an Apple offer to stay with DDV mainly for the culture as I believe it is unique and very supportive here

The team they brought over is pretty bad as well but I guess this is the relationship part. It sucks when the firm decides to bring in external hires rather than take care of their homegrown existing employees.

Make sure if considering / accepting a role to discuss your expectations up front and goals. Having the right partner level sponsorship is critical and that continuous communication.

Unfortunately for me what we discussed as my career path at the time of hiring did not happen and very disappointing.

Realize that DDV may not be the best place to work at, but why all the hate? I’m in DDV and I’ve had my fair share of terrible managers and partners, but if you’re complaining about wlb, why did you choose consulting in the first place? You didn’t know what you were getting yourself into?

P9 interesting on the 40% that was around my thoughts as well and that number is too high culture wise and greatest influence for leaving. There are many positives though in DDV and a variety of work and opportunities. Everyone’s situation is different (can’t compare) and some of it is timing.

I’m actually headed back to industry leading an organization. I have added many new skills though to my tool box though and glad that I had this experience.

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The new leaders can care less. There's been a push for trying to atleast raise salaries as an option to keep people engaged but that's been failing. I don't believe pwc or ddv cares enough to stop the mass exodus

We’ll know about that salary bump in a few days
 let’s see if “bridge the market gap” really means “get on par with EYP and the others”


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