Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-10-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Your projects define your experience
Pros: 1. Diverse project opportunities if you're aligned to a more trendy service line (e.g., Customer & Marketing, Strategy & Analytics)
2. Vast networking opportunities - Deloitte is enormous & spans across the globe.
3.  Great on the resume coming out of undergraduate.
4. BTA community is social, young, and supportive.
5. Plenty leadership exposure, internally and with clients.
6. Health and well being benefits are competitive.
7. The rigor nature, and long list of cons of the job, will polish your professional skills and give you thick skin in no time - something that you will carry on to your future jobs and life.
Cons: 1. BTA's are paid the same regardless of location. For more costly cities such as NY and SF, this is absolutely unreasonable.  
2. Work-life balance M-F is non-existent unless you're very lucky.
3. Performance reviews are entirely subjective, not outcome focused. Prepare to suck up for good ratings, and have an assigned counselor (who almost always never works with you) represent you for an entire year of your work. 
4. Most internal tools & processes at the firm feel a decade old.
5. Resource managers are inconsistent in helping you find projects; some let you take control, others staff you on projects without even notifying you. 
6. Politics and hierarchy are prevalent on a day to day basis. 
7. Mentors and counselors are entirely hit or miss with how helpful they are.
8. Powerpoint will become your best friend.  
9. BTA's are often treated like assistants - lunch orders, coffee runs, tedious office tasks, prepare for all of that at any given time. 
 10. Consulting industry is full of cliques, gossip, and reputation sensitive. 
11. If you aren't even close to being a Type-A extrovert, you will not enjoy this job.
12. You're either up, or you're out.