[roflc0ptic]

As a former dev in Risk Assurance: PwC’s offices are terrible and crowded open offices. It’s a godsend for the software people. Also lots of client engagement work happens offsite. Though of course to a large extent PwC’s job is to show up and look pretty.

[webinvest]

City?

As a dev in Florida their offices were the nicest offices I had ever been to. Anyone could checkout window seats, standup desks, or regular cubicles.

I also disagree with the show up and look pretty. Real work was getting done the majority of the time everywhere I turned. People would often work hard and leave an hour or two early because they had better time management. I saw significantly more overall productivity than at other big clients in other states.

[roflc0ptic]

Tampa, circa 2015-2018, IIRC. I was on the 10th floor at 4040 Boy Scout for a couple months and it was glorious. Then we moved to the 4th floor and it was bad. They intentionally under buy office space there because they already expected the majority of their IT to work remote.

And yeah, PwC also does productive work. I have a friend who works in healthcare who said working with PwC was a nightmare - basically teaching their associates how healthcare worked. The comment about pretty is really about how PwC seems to hire intentionally for visual appeal in their client facing roles. The company is basically selling confidence in their competence, so using the halo effect is a pretty natural strategy. It also lingers for me as being a bit icky.