Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-07-24
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great Company, Lots of "Mandatory Fun" Required to Be Successful
Pros: Inclusive culture - responsible leadership that actually spoke out boldly against the recent Orlando shootings and police brutality incidents in the US. Great benefits and easy to use wellness program that encourages physical fitness.Great flexibility allows maximization of paid time off and for people to work when it makes sense for them and their clients. Great Orientation program that immediately helps build the much needed networks.
Cons: This is a great company with great programs and great benefits; however, when I was told in my interview that "this is not a 40-hour per week job," I thought my interviewer was referring to actual client work. I soon realized that while you may have projects that exceed that, it is mostly the expectation to join and deliver impact on additional activities, including proposals, internal projects events and attending many happy hours, coffee chats and other meals with various levels of the company. On one hand this culture makes senior leadership very accessible, but on the other, it takes some of the emphasis off the importance of actual work or client delivery.  The new performance management system is somewhat of a joke around the firm and many of us, including managers don't understand how or what we're being rated on.  The consensus is that the word "leading" keeps coming up -- yet only formal leadership titles are being recognized and not when you've stepped up and taken the lead on initiatives. Like I said it is a great firm, but the culture definitely isn't everyone's cup of tea.