Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-09-28
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

S&O - Toxic culture
Pros: Brand name in other markets, but within Hong Kong competes against other Big 4 and lower tier firms.
Cons: Firm will punish you (denying progression/promotion, low salary increment) if you are labelled as picking projects. All the emails about you owning your career, or how it's a safe space to speak up is just PR. Partners will passively punish you until you leave.

Toxic culture - most of the expats left S&O HK in a single wave, citing negative issues and outlook with current leadership and management
Verbal/emotional abuse - happens day to day if you work under a certain notorious partner in the insurance practice
Favoritism - certain individuals are propped up and allowed to pick projects of their choosing. The rest are tossed onto long engagements with no career growth. Speaking up by asking to roll off will only destroy your career.

Overall, S&O in HK operates more as a body shop than a strategy consulting firm