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1.0
13 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Big slow stable company. Only consider this place is stability is important to you.

Cons

Pay is an absolute joke. I was able to get a 47% increase else where, and I would never have sniffed anything CLOSE to that at PNC. Heavy contractor and offshore engineering workforce. This leads to teams focusing on “tasks” over meaningful “feature” work. Scrum masters only care about how many story points are completed, not whether code is actually pushed to prod. Internal frameworks are garbage. Architecture team pushes multiple application breaking updates 6-7 times a year, then is slow as molasses to provide support when upgrading versions. The reality is, there are several safe, and stable, companies that software developers can work for, and I’d pick almost any other one before coming back to this mess at PNC.

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5.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent pay and benefits. Great people.

Cons

Workload is pretty heavy and training is lax.

2.0
2 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Compared with similarly sized institutions, PNC offers decent work-life balance. But it all depends on who your manager is. People are generally very helpful and always willing to answer questions. For the most part, I enjoyed my time there.

Cons

Compensation is frequently ranked among the bottom percentile in the industry, and this was no exception for myself. They do not take into account the cost of living of a certain area when you are in their analyst program. For example, someone in Nashville would have to the same compensation as someone with the same position in San Francisco. During my time there, it definitely felt very “laissez faire”. Communication among deal team members was also a bit unpolished, with juniors frequently having to play catch up. The bureaucracy and level of siloing between lines of business is awful. It slows down deal execution and overall efficiency.

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