Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-03-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Decent experience, god on resume, at the expense of work life balance and possibly your soul
Pros: - You work with other young and bright people for the most part. This makes for teams that are often easy to get along and occasionally fun.
- You are given a lot of responsibility, thrown into the fire per se. Which can be good and bad
- Taking the Big 4 path will give you future career opportunities, although most immediate opportunities will be in accounting
Cons: - it gets exhausting and not fulfilling providing a service that is not wanted by your client, but is provided because it is required for the sake of regulatory compliance. You do way more work than really practical or necessary in order to cover the Partner's butt. This is known and accepted, as it is the way of the world in an industry that is heavily regulated. 

- You rarely every come across people here that enjoy their job. Everyone is just doing it  "for now" until they see a good opportunity to leave, or else simply staying because they don't know what else to do. It can make for a depressing and discouraging environment 

- Managers are almost always stressed out. This trickles down if you let it.

- Little work life balance during busy season. Throughout the rest of the year you still work more than 40 hour weeks.. If you're on a big client, you'll be very busy all year around.

- On the same token, if you're on a big client, you get little exposure to different areas of the audit, and likely no exposure to any other clients.