Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-04-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not what you sign up for
Pros: - Met a few of my closest friends here
- Exposure to many different industries
- Decent pay for a recent college graduate
- Clear career path/advancement schedule
- Decently flat hierarchy
Cons: - ZERO predictability in terms of projects. One day you might get an email that you will be traveling to a random state for the next four months, working on a project that has absolutely nothing to do with your area of expertise or the role that you signed up for. I've been on projects in which I needed to be on the client site Sunday-Friday, meaning I'd travel over 16 hours a week just to spend 12 waking hours at home.
- Will pull you to wherever they have "business needs", regardless of your career goals and interests. This means that your day-to-day location, work content, team, and work-life-balance schedule are totally dependent on wherever Deloitte decides they need to put you.
- Learning opportunities - you have be extremely lucky to get on a project with great learning opportunities. Most analysts work in PPT or Microsoft Word all day.
- Staffing is absolutely horrible. They have no regard for the type of projects you're even remotely interested in, and only see employees (especially analysts) as a number. You can be relocated to any place at any moment, 70% of these places being the middle of nowhere. Even if you voice your passions and "network" yourself onto a great project, staffing can pull you off of that project whenever they desire and put you on a project that has more "urgent" needs or serves a political purpose.
- People here are so focused on networking that it's tough to form genuine relationships. Also, since everyone is always traveling, it's almost impossible to have a real sense of community. Happy hours consistent of non-stop small talk regarding current projects with people who really only talk to you because you might be useful to them.
- People are decently smart, but no one here is brilliant. There is extremely high turnover within top-university hires because of the lack of learning opportunities and lack of innovation among peers.