Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-05-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Veiled Enslavement
Pros: Good learning structure;
Plenty of web-based tools;
Networking opportunities.
Cons: If you have been a consulting professional with ten or fifteen years of experience already, do not expect Deloitte to recognize that and hire you on your proper level.  They will put you at the bottom rung of their ladder and you then discover that the people who 'manage' you are grossly inexperienced in people-management.  You then discover that you are being used simply as a lowly temp as if you are in temporary staffing firm where you are literally railroaded into 'projects' you never interviewed for.  Unconscionable !! 

During the interview process going in you do not know that 'Managers' means people with only 5 years experience; and that 'Director' are actually people on your level - and there is no way to catch up to that level when you are placed on a relative low-level position.  

Long-term projects are closely guarded and impossible to find; resource managers are simply not invested in trying to get you the right project to your skills; 'networking' puts you in a position of almost begging and people know that you have a 'handicap' by being new to Deloitte and thereby try to just use you as a warm body.  

It is also a well known fact in the consulting community by now that Deloitte "over-hired" last fall without assigning new hires a project, causing many talented people to sit on the bench and then get terminated in the spring.  Several of the earlier reviews do resonate with my experience as well, such as 'politically charged' environments, and 'putting a warm body to a project', and also senior managers not caring enough in the development and growth of people under the 'Manager' position.  

It was absolutely a no-win situation for a seasoned, highly experienced consultant - there should be a warning or a disclaimer somewhere in their hiring process that makes it clear:  "Our ideal candidates are under 25".  It is the unspoken rule of their game.