The people here are awesome. All willing to teach and socialize. There are bad apples of course, but I've not encounter any of them yet.

And the firm is not without its scandals.

All is good except the nature of the job itself which I am quite certain I will not be staying in the audit line for long.

New batches from July onwards are Industry Explorers, ie. you get to explore other industries for a year before committing yourself into a specific industry.

New leadership, new methods I guess.

Oh, I'm in EUMI.

First movers always have its risks. Time will tell whether this will affect the proportion of each industry and whether it will reduce turnover.

My first and only choice is EUMI. I joined PwC because of EUMI.

Like I explained just now, you most probably won't be put into FS immediately but you first engagement might be clients from FS.

Interview depends on the interviewer. If you get partners as interviewers, expect a little grill, but you will most probably get in anyway if you can't answer the question.

Mine was from HR. Standard behavioural questions, piece of cake.

Everyone thinks that they are willing to work hard in audit. But only a few will be able to withstand the pressure. Working everyday from 9am to 2am for 3 months with incompetent clients and sometimes not being able to claim a single sen and compensation time is super demotivating.

I believe it is up to you to decide whether to study part time during peak periods since you will be the one to sign up for the papers. Since you need 3 years of working experience to claim membership anyway, you might not want to finish up the paper ASAP, but it also depends on what qualification that you're looking for.

A fast track employee usually takes around 12 years or so to become partner.

What the... Its only July and the entire year's intake is already full?

More slaves are coming in for final audit I guess....

The Audit portion is the industry part, FS, MMG, EUMI, CLAS, etc etc.

You have to choose 3 before you can submit to them.

Didn't you just said that you submitted to them already? You're contradicting yourself.

To submit you must have surely ticked 3 areas in audit.

You dunno where to submit your application? Just click submit. The page won't show anything or give you any confirmation that you have submitted your application (as far as I remember).

It's most probably due to the year end bonus. Everyone leaves after receiving their bonus in end of July, me included.

Don't get conned into their presentation. The stuff that you see is the best thing that will happen in PwC and nothing more that will exceed your expectations.

You will be missing the KSP Dinner on 7 Sept though.

It is mostly off peak now, though if you're doing Sime, then its peak for you.

They are recruiting all year round. Just apply and hope for the best.

Windows 7 will be introduced either way at the start of next year if I'm not mistaken.

I don't really like the laptop, too bulky. Additional burden to our already weak body. XP

I have no comment on EY, but at PwC, everything outstanding will be reimbursed. I had 2.5 day leave and more than 12 days worth of OT, as well as other claims from engagements and they have given all back to me, worth more than 3k.

Can't really comment on advisory side of Big4.

It depends on how you see it. BDO can be considered Big4 in Malaysia since BDO's total audit fee is ranked 4th, above Deloitte in Malaysia.

But of course, you should also know that globally, Deloitte is at least 5 times bigger than BDO.

U just got conned. Bonuses are the same across all audit industries (not sure about advisory and tax though). The bonus depends on the current grade of the employee. A graders earn much more than other grades. Of course, the effort you need put in is also much more than others.

14 days is indeed normal. But banks give 24.

Of course you will learn. But the question is whether are the stuff that you learn applicable to where you envision yourself to be in?

P/S. Ex-PwC Assurance

Miri and KL office is very different, both in terms of quality and amount of work. I would say the allowance would most probably be 700 since you are based in Miri.