Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-04-21
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Diversity by the Numbers
Pros: Deloitte (the strategy group in particular, can’t speak to other groups) provides ample opportunity for career growth, exposure, and gaining valuable skills for general problem solving.
Cons: While the firm promotes diversity on paper, virtually everyone that is successful in the strategy group is from similar educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. There is a severe lack of diversity of thought, which can become a bit cultish. I imagine this is not unique to Deloitte, but likely prevalent in most consulting firms. If you do not fit into this mold, you will struggle. If you are an experienced hire and not an undergrad or MBA campus hire, this will likely be even more obvious to you. 

There are some great folks here, and there are some of the worst human beings I’ve ever worked with. Find a good network, and avoid the bad ones as a basis to excel and have a pleasant time. This isn’t always possible and is sometimes a product of the circumstances. I have worked for leaders who are pretty dishonest in general, in both client delivery and managing teams and relationships. Not all, but it’s there and good to avoid. 

I do not feel that the firm is very innovative in their approach to client solutions and thus sometimes can feel that much of the work is optics, sales and slides with limited actual value add.

Finally, the environment is competitive. This is good in many ways. The downside is that your peers and superiors at times will not be interested in much else other than self promotion at the expense of whatever or whomever.