Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-07-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

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Pros: I think I’ve been really lucky with getting on great engagement teams with really awesome partners and senior managers that set the tone at the top at a positive and supportive level. Learning curve is steep, but in hindsight, one year makes a difference and you can definitely see distinguishing qualities amongst yourself and peers from a years worth of experience. Career trajectory is incredibly straight forward, unlike other career paths, you can literally map out what you want out of this job and it is attainable if seeking the right mentor ship and guidance along with perseverance.  Opportunities are limitless when it comes to working on IPO’s, new services, changing up industry experience based on preferences.
Cons: I am a huge advocate for Cura Personalis (care of the whole self), and as much as they do support self care and wellness (way better than other big 4 based on convos with friends), the true practiced culture is very much the opposite. There’s implicit pressure to prioritize work over self care mostly from seeing your peers and yourself get caught up in deadlines or work that it leaves no time to do much outside of work. The toughest part really has been inability to set the pace in workload. I think it’s great that employees are pushed into management and senior roles quickly, but it’s not necessarily based on your needs as an employee and more so based on the demand of the market. Bay Area has a fast growing market but they don’t hire nearly as much people as they need, so you get people working 3 busy seasons straight, extending busy season from a 2-3 month long season to 4-6.... some even more. Burn out is prevalent across all levels and it really is a job of endurance and perseverance through it all.