Company: Deloitte
Date: 2012-07-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Brand is Career Booster, Luster Fades Quickly
Pros: -Fantastic training and initial "get up to speed" development courses help you learn the trade quickly
-Lots of bright people coming out of top schools join the firm and are eager and happy during their first two years
-Variety of different projects and ways to get involved
-Lots of networking events and nice offices across the country
-Good brand recognition
Cons: -Unclear, if not purposefully vague performance definitions
-Unreasonable and unquantifiable extracurricular involvement expectations
-Cut-throat, unfriendly environment
-Limited support for innovations and risk taking
-VERY difficult to move from one office/service line/practice to another
-The vast majority of projects at the firm involve implementation, not strategy
-S&O Consulting has a very audit/technology SDLC implementation/compliance/reconciliation focus despite information provided to new hires/prospectives connecting Deloitte to McBainGroup's strategy focus
-Easy to get lost in an ocean of people and projects with limited ability to find the island you're searching for due to PPD's protecting their turf and making their projects secret across the firm
-Limited cross-firm collaboration due to the above, PPD seem to be in competition with each other rather than helping their people and colleagues to grow
-VERY limited ability to work on international projects due to the swiss-verein "member-firm" structure whereby each country with the Deloitte name is actually a separate independent entity
-Easy to get pushed on to projects that are not at all what you want to work on due to internal inertia and lack of PPD trust in unknown consultants
-Clubby culture whereby various groups attempt to build strength and exposure

Disclosure: Received top performance awards for projects (2s and 3s), received applause award for performance, hold competitive/high exit potential Ivy league masters degree, experience in finance and consulting prior to experienced hire, Commercial and Federal exposure.