Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-04-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Nice people and firm - work not very interesting.
Pros: - Great people, undoubtedly the biggest strength. Supportive, friendly colleagues and top management are very approachable, reasonable and look out for staff. 
- Some really smart and capable colleagues, although arguably under utilized (more below) 
- Arguably the best consulting firm in Ireland (more on this later - not a great thing globally) with a significant presence. 
- Good social side to the firm. 
- Always lots to get involved in, some scope to move across areas/industries/service lines but you need to push for it. Plenty to get involved in re. business development (i.e. proposal writing) too.
Cons: - Biggest piece of advice to anyone reading this is seriously consider the type of work you want to do.  Despite the names of the service lines (e.g. 'strategy & operations', 'analytics & cognitive') you will likely not being doing the work you expect. Firm relies a lot on the reputation of the UK & USA firms. You will very likely not being doing any strategy work, or any kind of analytical operational work in S&O in Ireland. 90%+ of the client work is essentially outsourced project management. Same can be said for other service lines - analytics & cognitive do not do any cognitive technology related work, and you will likely be doing 'data' projects at best, which means MS Access Database management/migration/bog standard IT stuff. This borders on being deceitful sometimes during recruitment efforts I feel.  
- This isn't necessarily Deloitte Ireland's fault, and the same can be said for any consulting firms in Ireland, you likely won't get to do the type of work you think of when you hear 'management consulting'. This is really just the nature of the market in Ireland - any large firms based here who can afford to pay big consulting fees are likely multinationals and are not making their C-suite level executive decisions in Ireland. Even the native large Irish-owned clients often get in strategy houses from London to do the strategy consulting work or will contact Deloitte UK/other European firms for more complex/innovative tech work. If you really want to do strategy consulting or novel tech work you are far better off going elsewhere in Europe. 
- Despite what you might think/be led to believe, it is quite difficult to transfer internationally. The organisation model means that Deloitte is similar to a franchise system - so the Ireland firm is independent of other national firms as they are to each other. If you want to go abroad it's not as simple as requesting an office change, you are essentially applying to a new and different firm. Sometimes senior staff can help you apply if you are in their favour and they know someone at your desired location but they ultimately have no say on if you get hired or not.