Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-04-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Terrible culture, toxic teams. AVOID
Pros: Great benefits from $500 (pre-tax) well-being subsidy, to good health insurance and a pension. PTO is pretty standard, and usually firm closes for the last week of December for a collective disconnect. The Deloitte name might also be able to open doors to other external opportunities if you can spin your story right.
Cons: Burn out is a constant factor, enabled by toxic management and teams. Favoritism is rampant in this company. If you end up in a good team with management supporting you - good for you. If you don’t, it will be hard to succeed here and you should plan for your exit. 
Long hours (think 12 hour work days) and you are expected to work on useless firm initiatives, which are outside of your regular project work. Long days and pay which does not align with market rates? No. They also expect you to be ‘performing at the next level’ for about a year before you get promoted. Without paying you the rate at the next level of course, but they still portray you at that higher level when they are staffing you. If you don’t have enough backing during year end by the biased reviewers on the panel, good luck. You just worked like a dog and got played.

If you are on a visa - avoid at all cost. They will only start your green card process AFTER two years at the firm, no exceptions. Even after they initiate your green card, the entire process handled by the Talent team and law firm is riddled with zero transparency. The timeline they give is a MINIMUM of 2 years to get your green card. They can pause the processing anytime they want without letting you know, because yknow, ‘firm policy’. Good luck getting answers from anyone. 

The firm is pushing DE&I initiatives given recent social events, and most upper management are scrambling to put that as an accomplishment for themselves. This results in extremely unimpactful and excessive DE&I churn, and it is demoralizing that project leads who are known to create an environment of fear and fear of retaliation are leading these initiatives. The worst part? Upper management is well aware of toxic teams but choose to turn a blind eye.