Company: Deloitte
Date: 2012-07-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

OK so far - close to quitting now
Pros: - Looks good on the resume - great place to start your career
- If you are lucky, you'll work on some really good projects with nice folks - sr managers/partners who'll really care about your personal and professional development
Cons: - Pays are below par, atleast for analysts to manager level. Bonuses are a BIG joke.
- for foreign workers, deloitte's immigration policy is a farce. they'll keep you in a limbo for as long as they can. Everybody below manager is automatically filed in EB3 even if you have a masters and the position qualifies for EB2 filing.

The BIGGEST Problem - the way technology projects are sold. The firm and the technology practice specifically tends to heavily underbid on projects - and guess what, the people who are selling are not going to be delivering the project (to quote a PPD verbatim -- 'I dont care about the timeline, I am not delivering this anyways') --- shocking!! so if you are one of the guys who ends up delivering this project... well, tough luck.

PTO is good - but whats the point if you can never really take it. All projects are always on a condensed timeline (see below) and the team is always in a crisis mode - so when am i supposed to take my PTO? and then you get these ridiculous emails at the end of each calendar year - asking you to NOT take all your PTO and that its not all 'vacation time'. B#@$Sh%# - the PTO is part of the compensation package and i am entitled to every single day!!!

And Lastly, Don't even bother trying to understand the review process - 5 yrs in the firm and i still dont get it. its ridiculous to expect your people to have 100% utilization and still have 200-300 hours of 'Firm' initiatives.