Pros
If this is where you start your career: - Great place to work as you generally get to work with your friends or people of your age group (although the current situation means there is physical interaction, which is likely the cause of turnovers), but having to work with friends turns tough times slightly easier. - Steep learning curve, is considered a "Pros" in my opinion because it allows you to continue taking in knowledge right after graduation and not have a lag time which sort of dulls your speed of learning somehow. - The effort in helping you achieve CA under SQP (for other routes I'm not too sure) is definitely one of the better ones among Big 4s. - Pay is great if you compare within Big 4s only.
Cons
- High turnover, which meant that the load on the surviving staff gets heavier. Although yes, hiring rates also went up (not sure if this is good or bad), the load doesn't seem to lighten for the surviving staff. - Although there are minimal office politics (which is great even though this is a by-product of excessive workload), the fact that our promotions (and bonuses, since promotions are for good performers and bonuses, are based on performances) are tied to appraisals that can be determined solely by one senior member of the team, makes it quite susceptible to biases. - Working hours... this is a common complaint of many. This is mainly because of the need to manage costs (clearly for KPI purposes though I have to admit there are probably other reasons which I wouldn't have known of) which resulted in ridiculous plottings for the audit teams. - And yes, expectations of being double-plotted are present (I mean, management can tell us that they are working towards eliminating that but c'mon we are not that oblivious and gullible) but the actual extent of it is actually quite scary.