Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-02-09
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Severe Understaffing and Unprofessional Treatment of Employees
Pros: Benefits are great (although not the best in the industry), and they offer a 5 weeks of PTO as a new employee (but good luck taking it).
Cons: Exploitative work schedules due to severe understaffing. Leadership expects you to operate as a professional with a shoestring budget for staffing. They don't have nearly enough staff to do the basic functions of the job, but when you can't keep your work afloat in 70+ hour weeks, they tell you that you don't know how to prioritize or you aren't putting out *fill in the level* work. Leadership believes the way to resolve this is to have more happy hour and zoom chat activities which are attended by just a few. Employees are suffering with mental health issues and extreme exhaustion due to the pressure, long hours, and lack of balance. Deloitte doesn't like using "work/life balance," trading that instead for "work/life integration," because they want you to integrate your work into your personal time. Self preservation is frowned upon in action, but they'll tell you how important wellness is to the company. They tell you to take your PTO, but good luck trying to find someone to cover you when you're out. Management says all the right things while also saying all the wrong things. Because they talk out of both sides of their mouths, employees are left confused, gaslit, and invalidated. That's how they skirt any real accountability for their behavior.