Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-01-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Good company, but be aware of the cost to your life!
Pros: Good pay, exceptional team-mates (and I mean the best and brightest), toughest clients, challenging assignments, heck of a resume item.  If you're smart, aggressive, ambitious, and have little need for a personal life, this is the company for you.
Cons: Zero work-life balance (All work, no life).  You WILL be a road-warrior.  Leadership is working to improve the situation and has made some strides, but project demands usually trump any directives from above.  Most projects are capped at 40 billable hours/week, but 60-70+ hour weeks are not unusual (woe-be-to-you if you bill what you actually work, as required by the "rules").  This makes meeting utilization goals very difficult if you plan on taking any time off during the year. There are also heavy requirements for annual CPE goals and an expectation of significant annual investment in personal development/specialization hours (100+), all of which is not counted as part of utilization.  There are also administrative requirements for every aspect of a project which require detailed knowledge of user-unfriendly systems and apps, all of which is your responsibility.  Little, if any, of this time is accounted for in the "billables".  So ... do the math.  Oh, and did I mention your sales targets?