Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-11-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

It's going down hill recklessly fast
Pros: 1. Team mates. I have pleasant memories of working with genuinely smart & hard-working people.

2. Office space, meeting rooms, conference halls are all up class 

3. Deloitte hires the best facilities & services team & guards. They are the best in the business. Thank you for your service.

4. Impact Day/CSR programmes - 1 paid day dedicated to society, multiple avenues to pick and choose what cause one wants to support. Transparent reports on spending and status available for contributors. 

5. Diversity & Inclusion - Did not encounter or experience any gender discrimination.

6. Avenues to learn with curated learning, byte learning, Udemy, LinkedIn and other free subscription for employees.

7. HR(Talent) team responds faster than other employers in my experience.

8. Admin team, global relocation team are all prompt responders & best in the business.

9. Knowledge base portal has good reads & huge repository off articles and accelerators both technical and non-technical which are really helpful.

10. Learning and development team / SNET team - SNET team sets up sandbox environment to practice new tools, technologies and they are very responsive and technically skilled. Learning & development team shares regular calendar updates and plans multiple trainings based on firm pipelines and market trends.

11. Loop Survey - Anonymous 360 survey of leadership on various parameters can be submitted once a year. But if your lead is blessed by multiple "GODS" higher up he/she is immune to any feedback.

12. Gym, recreation centre - Gym is really up class but the TT room needs improvement as the ball sneaks through the holes resulting in waste of time fetching the ball.

13. On campus medical facilities and dark room - Available 24*7 and well kept. Please ask people to remove socks outside so that the bad odour is kept at bay.
Cons: To begin with Deloitte has quietly laid off scores of employees worldwide without blinking an eye during the peak of the worst global pandemic in the history of mankind. They gave a few hours to resign with 2 months’ pay or threatened to terminate without any pay-out. Many employers laid off during the pandemic but gave 3 or 6 or 9 some even 12 months’ pay. Some gave additional pay based on number of years served with the company. 6 years with company means 6 months additional pay + severance pay package.

A company's ethics are best evaluated in crisis. It was unethical on Deloitte's part to lay off without appropriate pay-outs.

For face saving they hired a handful and did propaganda everywhere to portray an image that they're hiring instead of firing as others.

Now the other "CONS"

1. The new appraisal & performance evaluation system is a sham & lacks transparency. Manager is GOD. 
There's no concrete grievance mechanism. Snapshot based on few questions might work for non-technical teams but certainly not for technical teams. The person answering those questions should be competent enough to understand the true meaning of those questions in the first place.

If your counsellor sleeps throughout the year & wakes up at the 11th hour you're doomed. Likely to be fired.

2. Hire & Fire policy. Deloitte is heavily invested in PR and branding, if they hire 10 folks, they will announce it all over but quietly layoff 1000 without a whisper.

3. Don't fall for the HR propaganda of Employee wellbeing, Mental health & "Our people are our asset". It's nothing but high decibel propaganda. When push comes to shove, they are best in the business with slaughtering "Human" resources inhumanely.

4. Gone are the days when Deloitte offered better pay packages. Venture out and you are likely to be paid much better.

5. Firm Initiatives - It's a good concept but blatantly misused and exploited. In Deloitte employees are expected to go and over beyond their project deliverables by doing firm initiatives for which more often than not employees are expected to network with higher ups. This is where the blatant exploitation occurs. Nepotism, Favouritism, Boot Lickism, add any "isms" you want to add. For someone who is not good at these qualities should definitely avoid Deloitte. In US firm initiative concept is not so much exploited but in India is hopeless. Ideas are stolen & given to favourite people at times.

6. "Glass Ceiling" - After a certain career level if you don't have the blessings of multiple "GODS" in the so-called leadership, it is impossible to survive & break the glass ceiling and go beyond a certain level. Manager & above specially.

7. Learning - The learnings are limited as most of Deloitte projects do not require hi fi tech skills. But they do provide avenues like Udemy and others to employees to upskill at their leisure.

8. The annual appraisal results are announced in May and hikes are rolled out in September thus delaying the whole cycle by 6 months. This is ridiculous which makes it tricky to plan your next potential jump & leaves a very small window considering employers demand last 3 months salary so 1 would want to show hiked up salary slips.

9. Work Culture - Its going downhill recklessly fast as the hiring at higher levels from other organizations have ruined the original "Deloitte" culture

10. Work life balance - It's difficult to maintain work life balance while working for Deloitte as apart from project work one has to slog for firm initiative hours which more often than not decides the rating, hike and bonus. Because people who screw on projects are fired anyways. So hardly anyone screws on their project.

11. Reward system - Rewards are exploited by managers blatantly and distributed many times to boot lickers or favourites. But this is not across the board. Many a deserving people also are awarded. But there is no checks and balances system. Also, one can work round the clock and put in all the efforts and still go unnoticed and unrewarded.