Company: Deloitte
Date: 2010-11-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Sleeping with the enemy
Pros: - A place that hires new graduates.
- Youthful workforce in the Consultant/Senior Consultant/Manager levels.
- A place that will pay for you to get industry certifications (when it suits their agenda).
Cons: - Lack of honesty and transparency when communicating to employees. (Example: After swearing that no further employees will be let go; letting go more employees 6 weeks later.)
- All talk and no action even when faced with dismal employee satisfaction according to their own internal polling. 
- Extremely poor paying but their HR department has built up layers of denial when accused of this. (Example: They will say they use a pay survey that you do not have access too. They will not show you the actual survey. When you bring in your own survey they claim that theirs is the industry standard.)
- Lack of raises common during these days of "volatile times" including 0% raises common.
- The year end 'bonus' is used as a carrot to equalize time over and above 40 hours and personal sacrifice. Recently the formula for this year end 'bonus' has been revised where if another Deloitte office does not meet their self-set revenue goal the 'bonus' payout will not happen. 
- Partners do not abide by the TDR and may over ride them at their will. (Example: Filling in the TDR that you do not wish to travel as you have a family will not work.)
- Narrow scope of work at Consultant level. (Example: Printing/Taking Notes/Filling in spreadsheets/Being billable).
- Reading other reviews about allowing 'mobility' work being allowed I can say that this was not the case in Western Canada. Although giving lip service to flexible work arrangements the Senior Managers and Partners will look down upon employees who wish to work at home. 
- Complete disconnect on resources required to do a job. 
- Advertising expired technical certifications when attempting to win client work.