Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-01-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Good-not great
Pros: Deloitte is a great company to work for, especially to start your career. You will be challenged, grow, and become or improve on being a very polished, well-rounded professional. Your career really is in your hands and you can shape it in so many different ways by projects you take, firm initiatives to get involved in, etc. There are so many fantastic people at this firm as well that it's easy to make friends, become close with your team, etc. Working in Federal is still fast paced, but projects don't typically have the burn rate of commercial nor the travel. Work may be less interesting, but there is a better work life balance overall (with some exceptions). Deloitte is great for a person who values independence, is ok being out of their comfort zone, likes to be constantly challenged, and can distinguish themselves and hold their own at a large company. Also, benefits are great!
Cons: Most of the Federal work is not that interesting and can be staff aug related. PTO negatively affects utilization as do firm holidays, which makes no sense. Easy to get wrapped up in too many firm initiatives, especially if a project is slower and that can lead to burnout. That's less common now though with a culture shift. Federal Human Capital, especially female managers and above, can be extremely catty and mean. This firm  has a great culture, EXCEPT for the leadership in Federal Human Capital.  These women get away with bullying junior staff, choosing favorites, and have gotten away with ruining some promising junior staffers careers. There really aren't any female role models in this area of consulting any more and it's really sad.