Company: Deloitte
Date: 2011-08-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

A waste of my time as a new hire.
Pros: - They pay you and are willing to send you off to another state for training.
Cons: - Staffing process is broken. Period. Your resources (buddy and counselor) are most likely too busy to help. Your HR staffing manager is too incompetent to understand your skill set and will forward your resume to some projects that are complete mismatch. You can be on the bench for 2-3 months or more if you're a new hire. Project teams only want Deloitte veterans instead of new hires (yes, I was told this as a reason the project teams rejected me even though my skills and background fit the profiles perfectly).

- Extremely unwelcoming culture for new comers. It could be due to the consulting nature of the firm. Nobody would be in the office except Fridays. After the 2-day orientation you'll be on your own, from booking/checking-in/locating your desk, meeting people, to finding work to do. You'll most likely be sitting in your cubicle all alone with nobody to talk to. You'll need to email/im/call strangers locating in some random remote area to 'put yourself out there', who half the time don't respond to you because they're too busy with their projects. If you have any question, there's no human being who'll explain how to do things to you because everyone is too busy and they'll only tell you to do a search on DeloitteNet.

- Extremely disorganized. Since there's really no human being explaining how to do things, you'll need to find information on your own. Unfortunately there are 1000+ different documents in different formats (web, excel, word doc, ppt, etc) explaining how to do the same thing in different ways, and some even in contradicting manner.

- Online training classes are laughable. They might look like they have a nice great portfolio of online training classes, but their materials and presentations are horrible. Even the compliance training classes are plain ridiculously time-consuming with some badly graphic 'avatars' explaining the rules.

- Pay is low if you're in FSI. You can score a much better package if you are with a bank instead. Lots of fine prints in the compensation package that weren't told up front. For example, pension and 401K company match will only start after working a full year with the firm.

- Technical practice is questionable. As a consultant in the technology division, I raise my eyebrows when the project teams told me they don't have time to do testing, or when they use technical terms incorrectly in a sentence.