iBank Alumni Feedback Form

Name: Abhijit Mutha

Batch: PGP
02-04
Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers (Technology Advisory
Services)
Industry: Consulting
Role/Position: Consultant / Business Development
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(Please feel free to extend your answers beyond the given
spaces)
Please tell us about the industry you work in, and the specific
challenges and benefits it entails.
(For example job description, work hours, compensation, ease
of exit, learning, etc.)
The job is a typical IT consulting role. PwC has recently started the
consulting practise again subsequent to selling the business to IBM.
Hence the practise is still in a nascent stage and consultants get
exposure to the entire project cycle - business development, project
initiation and staffing, implementation, and post go-live support. The
flip side is that while all projects are new and there is no
maintenance kind of work undertaken by PwC, most projects are
domestic and on-site opportunities abroad are limited.
Compensation is not as competitive as it needs to be.
Work hours are not very demanding except during project final
phases.
Exit options are myriad due to the growth of the IT consulting domain.
What advice (in terms of skills required, personality match
etc.) would you give for someone who would like to join a role
similar to yours?
You have to be fairly hands-on person since you will have to handle
most things yourself. If you are hoping to have your job well defined
and cut out for you, this is not the place. Be ready to handle all
aspects of the consulting process.
What do you like most about your job/role?
The freedom I enjoy; the responsibility I have and the fact that I
report directly to one of the directors of the firm.
What don't you like about your job (or like least)?
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The fact that things are in a state of flux and everybody is stretched
thin, at times handling too many issues simultaneously.
Please mention 3 things you like most about your company (you
can write more if you wish).
1. The respectability it enjoys
2. The fact that it does not treat me as another cog in a big wheel
this is still a clan organization and not a bureaucracy like other
IT companies.
3. It respects academic excellence and institutions like the IITs and
IIMs

Please mention 3 aspects of your company that could be

improved (you can write more if you wish).
1. This is a partnership firm and the partner has the last word for
better or worse.
2. Processes and systems are still not in place to the extent that
you would expect from a Big 4 firm.
3. It is a conservative firm on account of the flagship business
being auditing.
Any other comments (especially points not covered during PPTs for placements).