Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-03-06
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great Firm
Pros: The best part about Deloitte are the people. I have yet to meet a team member that was not supportive (at every level).  If you perform well, management does make an effort to show their appreciation (both verbally and monetarily). There are times when you will have to work late nights and long weekly hours; however, more often than not... you will have a team right there with you. In most advisory related market offerings, there are no set-routine busy seasons as it's very project based. As such, you'll have projects that may require weekly travel with varying level of hours needed, but every project is different, so you will definitely never get bored.
Cons: At the consultant and/or senior consultant level, the main focal point of year-end performance evaluations is utilization. There are other metrics of course (e.g., Project based Performance Evaluations, participation in non-client specific firm activities, projected/actual time variance reports, etc.). However, as utilization is a large factor (if not the most), it becomes difficult when project management pressures you to eat hours to avoid exceeding project budgets (i.e., work 60, but bill 40). But in my experience, management will work with you, not against you... they'll ask what you need (support) wise to get the job done.