Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-05-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Deloitte Audit Senior Assistant
Pros: Practical experience
Exposure to accounting issues, guidance, and wide knowledge base.
Great people. 
Good benefits relative to other big four accounting firms. 
Some flexibility on remote work and unassigned time. 
$5K bonus for passing the CPA.  
25 days PTO and 10 Holidays is pretty good for time off.
They match up to $500 in fitness expenditures every year. This allows you to buy fitness equipment cheaply.
Cons: Confusing and counter productive performance management. 
Difficultly managing ones career, ie getting on important client.
Constant silent lay offs
Poor work life balance
Stale, uninspiring leadership
Poor advancement opportunities, no one makes partner anymore, so you would have to be Jesus or leave at some point anyway.
Talent is silo-ed such that you practically never meet or work with people from different functions, and transferring is close to impossible
Pay and raises are practically insulting, barely matching inflation (outside of promotion years)
Managers in the audit practice are either the superstars who expect too much or the under achievers who are hanging on because they are afraid to try something outside of their comfort zone. Either way, many managers here are difficult to work with.