Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-10-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Bad place and no clear direction!
Pros: Good learning resources. Impressive facility called Deloitte University.
You get exposed to business side of things, proposal writing, contract bidding, and develop soft skills, learn how to communicate and network well.
Cons: It's not about what you or the quality of work you do (esp. as a technologist). You will be asked to work to build a weak product as long as it can be released on time and then asked to move on to the next contract. 

Your success here is dependent on who you know higher up in the chain, how you falsely hype up your position and accomplishments, and how much you are willing to majorly focus on benefitting the firm (outside of your full time client project) with winning more work and keeping your utilization up by not taking all your PTO. 

As a technologist, this place is a really bad fit in the federal space. We are under valued, and there is no focus on making quality software. The technologies used are backwards, and most of the work is about maintaining old legacy systems for the government. I felt like I spent more time with security compliances, clearances and protocols than I spent on implementing software. 

The evaluation process is majorly disappointing. The person who represents you in the meeting is not someone who has worked with you and knows you to a good extent. And the higher up people who decide your rating might have never worked with you, and will show favoritism in case they do know someone. It feels as if there is no control on driving your career here.