Company: Deloitte
Date: 2013-09-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Politics and throwing people under the bus, secret alliances = rewarded behavior.
Pros: Big four, far more complexity than many opportunities. Many great people.
They are doing their best.
They are trying very hard to value their employees, they provide many activities and dump free food on their employees. The directors and partners have a great sense of humor, and are very human.
Incredible level of integrity of many higher-ups.
Emphasis on socializing and people are very friendly. I made many great connections that will last and that will surely prove invaluable.
Cons: Big push to use India. Versus E&Y & PWC I am told Deloitte Tax is trying to win by digging deeper and deeper into India. Seniors do not have time to teach. I was brought on as an experienced hire, previously a manager at an exceptional two man shop (ie billionaire individual and hedge fund client with $30MM in ordinary income.) I did not bounce when I hit the ground.

Staff: lay low, be quiet, work 12-16 hours per day, bill 8 hours. Coming from a small firm I was naive and billed out all my hours, in training they said not to worry about it. Worry a lot! This might be specific to Deloitte Tax. Some departments might be different. I don't know for certain. If people hear you have missed a budget, it can spread like wildfire across the entire department, and your days are numbered.

Highly political, many secret alliances with a director and manager in my group targeting certain people. 

I was told to stop being difficult and to do whatever I was told. Senior on a project made mistakes, and I left them in as I was told to, I got fried.