Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-07-27
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior Consultant
Pros: •	Working for a firm with a good reputation and globally recognized brand
•	Working with high-caliber clients in high-profile, rapidly changing, and/or disrupted industries or sectors
•	Working on large-scale, global projects and initiatives
•	Learning about different industries, businesses, functions, and cultures
•	Acquiring and developing skills/experiences at a highly accelerated pace
•	Working with executives and managers
•	Working with highly intelligent, successful, and talented colleagues
•	Helping clients make better decisions about their workforce
•	Coming up with strategic solutions related to talent and change management
Cons: •	Consulting staffing model, which gives limited control to the practitioner over project, client, or work assignments, locations, duration, etc. 
•	Lack of consistency, predictability, and balance of work and life
•	Bureaucracy and politics of a large, traditional consulting environment
•	Sheer size of the organization, which makes it challenging and time-consuming to navigate, build relationships, and find opportunities
•	Expectations around contributing to internal firm initiatives in addition to client service
•	Occasional discrepancies between quality of services provided to clients and the quality of the same services provided internally within the firm