Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-07-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

No Home for Design
Pros: When they buy up agencies they have a lot of great talent and great sub-cultures. Exposure to some good big brands. No issues with lack of software/technology. Ok benefits. Lots of travel all over the US so you get to see a lot of great cities. Good office location. Pays pretty fair market value for designers.
Cons: Zero work/life balance.  Pretty much killed the culture of every agency they buy. Watched the best talent walk out the door for 2 years. Some of the brands they work with are pretty questionable at best. Their philosophy is that we tell the clients what they need, we never should ask the clients what they want.  This is how the consultancy seems to pride themselves.  This is at odds with how the design agency world operates. Their annual review process is brutal and based mostly on just subjective discussion among PPDs who have not actually worked with the talent at hand. There is no management for disciplines, they don't really believe in middle-management.  Instead look forward to a succession of 3 or 4 PPDs to tell you when you did something wrong (and only when you did something wrong).