Company: Deloitte
Date: 2013-04-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Quality of consulting projects is going downhill
Pros: Good place to build people skills
Good pay
For the most part, the people are pretty competent and are good people to talk to
Cons: Quality of consulting projects has gone severely downhill over the past few years.  If you are applying to S&O, know that it is much more heavily based on the Operations side (not very much strategy work).  A lot of the projects that are sold are not even consulting projects - many are just staff augmentation roles - specifically, there are many roles that you wouldn't even need a high school education to do.

Junior staff is extremely unhappy.  Not a great place to start a career, despite what the rankings may say.  If you want to do consulting, look elsewhere.  Many projects do not teach you any useful business skills (besides people skills - I will give Deloitte credit for building people skills), making you not very marketable for positions elsewhere.

You have very little control over your career development and staffing situations.

As a junior member of the staff, I know that the majority of the junior staff I've talked too are extremely dissatisfied with Deloitte and are seriously considering leaving the firm.

If you are being recruited from on-campus...  Just know that this firm is definitely not on par with MBB.