Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-04-20
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good place to start career, but unsure about staying long-term
Pros: Learning from smart people, flexibility to try different client projects, benefits like $500 wellbeing subsidy has been great. Travel perks were also pretty good before COVID. Once you find a good network, they can be very supportive throughout your career
Cons: Very network-based, and performance is basically evaluated on how much your manager likes you and your ability to stay staffed on client projects. Being evaluated on a scatterplot of your peers (all of which who have managers that evaluate their talent differently) is really misleading and honestly not helpful to my development.

Having long hours is standard, like most consulting firms. You have to suss out which partners / SMs tend have more intense projects and pursue staffing opportunities accordingly. Even though it has been acknowledged that people are feeling burnt out during the pandemic from constant Zoom meetings, nothing has really changed significantly to fix it.

Also, GSAP is a lot more selective than in the past, even though it's marketed heavily when recruiting candidates. I recently found out I wasn't eligible because my performance wasn't "exceptional", even though I feel like I went above and beyond over the past 2 years, so that's extremely demotivating. Compensation is relatively average