Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-06-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Manager - Deloitte Consulting
Pros: - Great resume builder; other recruiters and companies positively respond to the Deloitte brand (and to management consulting in general)
- Good empowerment in managing one's own career; you can work in any industry / function as long as you yourself make the effort to make it happen (i.e., network with leadership, contribute free time to project proposals, etc.)
- Generally collegial coworkers, especially at the more junior levels
- Interesting project work that takes you across different business problems and industries
- Strong management team that is steering the company is the right direction (from a strategic point of view); good job security
- Points / airline miles from travel and dining out
- Expense accounts are generally lenient (but depend on the client / project)
- Good health benefits
- Pension plan that vests after three years
Cons: - Unrelenting demands. Asking for free time to yourself is generally frowned upon. Everyone constantly feels like they need to show how hard they're working
- Uncompetitive pay at the Manager level (other consulting firms generally pay much more at this level), especially in light of the work demands
- "Nights / weekends firm activities": one is encouraged to sign up for additional "nights / weekend" work to show their dedication to the firm; these contributions are measured and evaluated at year-end
- Generally, travel from Monday morning through Thursday night; travel time isn't considered "work time", so travel happens during very early mornings and into the evening.  Only time to see family / friends is Friday evening through Sunday evening
- A lot of apathy amongst employees, especially at the mid-levels; publically, everyone chants "rah rah!" but privately, a lot of people aren't very invested in the firm 
- Very limited international work; most work is domestic US
- Terrible 401(k) match, something like 25% to the dollar