Company: Deloitte
Date: 2013-11-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Don't fall for the money - they pay well and then kill you
Pros: Salaries are very high and consultants make a killing.  Everything the firms do is done top-notch - catered dinners (with uniformed waiters); flat-screen jumbo TVs in the lunchrooms (on every floor); travel to awesome places for conferences, with lots of after-hours planned fun.
Cons: The firms will take over your life.  Expectation of 7-day work weeks, conference calls on Sunday a norm (and they last for hours), mandatory to check email at least once an evening (and you will get 100+ emails a day) and daily over the weekend and holidays; "Crackberry" syndrome is the minimum.  If you are not married with a stay-at-home spouse, or single with zero outside obligations, you will be seen as incapable of making the grade.  I know two women who had to discuss the choice to have a baby with their bosses - in one case the woman had to give up the chance to make partner.