Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-01-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Avoid if you can
Pros: - Modern employer at the heart of the international action
- Centrally located offices
- Good induction
- High staff calibre
- International atmosphere and diverse staff hired from across the globe.
Cons: - The company aspires to some high values, however, these are not implemented internally.
- The appraisal system is nothing but an exercise in office politics whereby the senior management try and shift blame on to junior staff.
- Appraisals depend on "feedback". This is literally a matter of more senior people saying whatever about junior staff without having to evidence it.
- If junior staff provide negative feedback about senior staff they are told that they are the only ones saying it and the next time their feedback is simply not asked for.
- The Partner's favourite gets preferential treatment even if people openly say they are resigning because of him.
- A while ago Deloitte tried to introduce an appraisal system based on objective output but my team at least were openly talking at team meetings about how they "are going to make it work for us", meaning how they can carry on giving their favourite people good performance ratings and bring down those they don't like while refusing to view performance in objective terms.
- HR are completely unsupportive and powerless. Most of the times they don't respond to staff communication.
- Externally Deloitte campaigns for empowering people to achieve their potential in spite of barriers. Internally, you are told that unless you have a disability and they are obliged to do it by law they cannot accommodate you.
- As long as racism is coming from Partners it is ok because values are good but it is the Partners that bring the money in after all.
- Partners have been there for decades and become an institution in themselves. They promote a hard drinking culture.
- VERY poor work/life balance with people having to stay till midnight sometimes or are sent away on project for 6 months without much notice.
- The private medical actually covers very little and you pay a big part of the treatment out of your own pocket.
- If you must work here because of whatever, make sure you are ready to go after 2 years because that is as long as human patience lasts. Unless you are a partner.
- VERY high staff turnover.
- Non-British staff are being told that they have to behave like British while there is full tolerance for non-British staff working outside of the UK.
- It is the norm to see people crying at their desk.