Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-09-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Good benefits, good brand, terrible work-life balance
Pros: Deloitte is a great place to work as far as exposing yourself to "important work" and opening doors for yourself further down the road. In their consulting practice, you definitely will have the opportunity to get on some really cool and interesting projects. Having the Deloitte brand on your resume is definitely a plus as you move on.
Cons: Major downside of Deloitte: there is no work-life balance. You are expected to work all day, very late, whatever the client needs. 

Traveling is not nearly as cool as they make it sound and in my opinion, is not worth the free food, hotel points, and miles.

In spite of having insane amounts of work as is, Deloitte also expects its practitioners to contribute to the firm in the form of extra curricular activities. Its ridiculous. "Work 80 hours a week for us, and when you're done, spend another 15 hours working on some firm initiatives."

Your performance is evaluated on a curve so if the die hards in your class are willing to put in a lot of extra hours on the weekend, you better be willing to do the same if you're hoping to advance. 

Given that this was my first job out of college, I did not have any first hand understanding of what it meant to work at a place with a lot of "politics." Deloitte is absolutely one of those places. Spend your time talking to the right people if you want to get on the projects you like and if you want people vouching for you at your year end evaluations.