Company: Deloitte
Date: 2017-09-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Tax associate
Pros: Good benefits, decent number of annual leaves

No requirements to OT until filing season or urgent deadlines for projects

Clear career path and almost guaranteed progression and promotion until managerial level
Cons: Time and people management are difficult because you are always working on multiple engagements and projects with different deadlines, managers and clients' expectations of turnaround and expected deliverables. Most staff just end up focus on churning out work for the sake of churning without going the further distance to deliver value add for the clients, despite being professionals.

Managers are also overly concerned about time costs and budget for their engagements and are reluctant to let staff claim taxi while still demanding quick turnaround for engagements (conundrum as extra time after working hours will need to be spent to meet the managers' deadlines). As such, many people opt to bring laptop home to work under the pretense of having a work life balance.

A lot of administrative duties which eat into the time for actual deliverables.