Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-03-05
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

S&O Consulting
Pros: - You are the owner of your career. Deloitte experience is what you make out of it. 
 You'll need to go out and meet people to see what opportunities are available to gain your desired experience. There is limited hand-holding - nothing comes on a silver platter, but for people who take ownership and reach out, there'll be support. (i.e. getting on the projects / industries you want, transferring internally is quite doable / geography transfer trickier but doable)
- You have the freedom and support to pursue any initiatives / ideas you want to outside of client work. Want to open a workshop for internal employees / initiative a volunteering event / volunteer your skills by doing pro-bono consulting? You have the resource & support to make it happen.
- Chill culture - I see many people in almost borderline casual cloths (even plain casual for 5th floor tech consulting people :)) - of course, you'll need to dress the part when you have a client meeting but generally the culture is very laid back and relaxing.
- Depends on the team, but for my team the work life balance is pretty good. (I did hear horror stories from more strategy focused groups (i.e. monitor) working until 10PM-2AM... but I have been going home by 5-6pm-ish except for a very few occasions.
Cons: - If you don't have the 'take ownership' personality, you will quickly get lost in this huge firm. You'll still get somewhat decent experience & good name on your resume, but you won't be utilizing 100% of what's available to you.
- The salary is on the lower side - You'd make more in the industry. 
- Nothing else, honestly.