Company: Deloitte
Date: 2018-06-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Mixed feelings - depends on department
Pros: -looks good on CV
-Smart, dedicated colleagues, most are very friendly
-Nice perks (fancy office, nice cars even for all juniors...)
-High-end company events
-some training/info sessions 
-Kind management 
-Big budgets

If you are ok with work taking over your life, if you're skilled at navigating through political games, if you are fine with being part of a "tribe", if you’re Belgian, go for it! You'll have great possibilities and interesting experiences and the name on your curriculum.
Cons: C
(Disclaimer: big company, so might not be representative)
-Politics, politics, politics
-Very hierarchical, job levels are very important, partner says jump, you say how high, watch out what you say
-High pressure and quite stressful, I've seen colleagues cry, negative atmosphere in general,  people complaining all the time, everything is always so serious, problematic and urgent
-open office/flex desk: nice trend but not easy to concentrate 
-Competitive 
-a job that takes over your life, you're always on call
-“interesting” e-mail culture: everything happens in writing only vs personal communication 
-you don’t get the feeling that you matter; you’re just a number 
-practical problems, simply getting to the office  is often a challenge (parking!)
-very Flemish (depends on your assignment of course), you might feel that you don't fit in if you're not
-you're supposed to take most of your vacation during (summer) school holidays and between Christmas and new year office is closed but it gets deducted from your vacation days.

I’m having a great learning experience but working in such a big Belgian(Flemish) company really isn’t for everyone.