Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-04-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Good and stable company, but a lot of extra fluff, mixed bag of projects, and mediocrity
Pros: Lots of training opportunities, very nice people, and some good projects. Good place to network and build strong relationships and friendships.
Cons: -The pay is below-market. Especially if you're working in the federal side. 

-What Deloitte doesn't tell you upfront is that aside from client projects, you actually have to do a lot of "firm initiatives" that contribute to firm culture and the business. Your performance rating is actually based on not just your client project performance, but the extent to which you're involved (both leadership and quantity) in these types of commitments, ranging from "communities of practice" to recruiting to business development. If you just care about client work, these extra activities, while a great way to network and expand skills and interests, can also seem like a lot of fluff.

-Very, very hard to move horizontally across the firm. Moving between commercial and the federal practices, for example, is harder than getting a new job, given all the internal bureaucracy.