Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-04-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Great exposure and opportunities if you can accept extreme drawbacks
Pros: -- Invaluable learning opportunity to witness high-level operations and network with upper-level management at Fortune 500 companies

-- Fast track to obtaining attest experience and the CPA

--  Large corporate setting and availabiity of resources truly dictate the phrase "it's what you make if it"

--  Work/Life balance can be satisfactory if you communicate your needs early on and continuously

--  Considerable flexibility in vacation time and work hours during non-busy season time
Cons: --Non-busy season time has become scarce; employees regularly work 6 month busy seasons.

-- Smart, competent employees leave the firm to find better opportunities; incompetent performers are the experienced employees left over to promote to leadership

-- Relatively bad pay and opportunist culture of San Francisco result in the highest turnover of the best talent in the Deloitte SF office

--Opportunities to jump on advanced and/or fitting assignments are limited by politics and inefficient, weak management philosophies.