Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-06-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Breeds Managers - not actual work
Pros: Lots of benefits, some only if you can find them because they're not advertised. No matter what part of the company (I worked in Services, not Client facing) it does look really good on a resume.

It really gave me lessons in how to "business speak" and identify who was good and bad.
Cons: You are not allowed to experiment. You are not allowed to expand. You are held very rigidly to your specific duties. I wanted to add some audio to a presentation. I was not allowed to because "we have a team for that, that's not your job." Didn't matter that whatever teams did the specialized work were both overworked AND had no way to add your work to their queue.

Basically, the ONLY people on the Services side who get ANY respect are those who manage: Manage teams of "drones" doing the actual work, or for the flashy people, those who manage other companies they've contracted to do actual work.

And the management across the country (and world, if you count the India offices working for Deloitte US) only respects sucking up.  You DO NOT challenge your management. You do anything outside of what they demand. If you do, they will have HR also sucking up to them to run you out. I've seen it too many times to count in the many years I was there. In several teams: (IT, Office Services, Admin, Finance, etc.) where the problem is always elsewhere, and the few employees who actually do real work are micromanaged to robotic level efficiency.

Fail to meet the impossible goals, and you will get lousy year end reviews. Succeed in the LETTER of the goals but not the implied goals, and you get lousy year end reviews. Succeed in all your goals, but be your own person instead of a manager brown noser, and get a lousy year end review.

Unless you, on your own time, go around the office to chat with people from other departments, you will never find opportunities to advance, or even go sideways. You will honestly never know what anyone else actually DOES in the company, because your own management either doesn't know themselves or will not tell you because you belong to them, and them only.