Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-09-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Great learning opportunities and benefits. Mixed culture and work experiences.
Pros: Great learning opportunities: the firm is large, so there is always someone you can learn from. 
Great HR/talent management with fairly well defined policies.
Cons: Large emphasis on internal firm activities that can detract from project work. Ratings occur on a 4-5 point scale, but in reality ratings cluster around 1-3 levels, making bifurcation of performance difficult. As a result, the only way for employees to distinguish themselves is via internal (i.e. nights and weekends)  firm activities, giving those activities undue importance.

The firm is really a conglomerate of individual Partner/Director fiefdoms, which can make progress slow and fraught with politics. This also creates inconsistent experiences working within the firm. On the positive side, the partnership model generally encourages the firm to make decisions with the 'long-term' in mind. 

Very mixed bag of experiences with leadership and management. There have been some truly truly stellar managers at this firm as well as some unaware, petty and passive aggressive managers.