Company: Deloitte
Date: 2017-03-20
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

ERS Senior Consultant
Pros: Worked at Deloitte for 4 years.  Most of the people I met at Deloitte were focused and career driven.  Everyone held their own weight.  No one really slacked off but I'm not saying there aren't those types of people.  With a firm this large it's really a hit or miss.  My friends who are still at Deloitte have trouble with certain people on their projects but I seemed to have been lucky with my projects.  Deloitte offers you a lot of opportunity to build your own career.  Knowing the right people definitely helps a lot.  You have to network, it's the one thing they teach you to do.  It helps when you want to leave a project and go do something else.  

They also have a great training program and health subsidy.  Benefits have been the best so far (for me at least)  No other companies I've worked with can come close to what they provide.  If you're on the PPD track the health subsidy is something nice you can use every year for athletic equipment or gym membership.  Also DU is amazing, unfortunately they don't send out Associates/PDM folks to the facility (which is a shame).
Cons: Try to negotiate a higher compensation in the beginning.  Once they lock in that amount it stays with you.  No matter how high your title is; whatever your base salary was when you started that determines how fast your salary grows.  If you start off on the lower end it'll take years before you reach what ever salary pay you have in mind (this is with promotions and cash bonuses).  This might not be the case for everyone, just personal experience for me and a few other people i know.  

Utilization rate: if you don't hit it, you're basically screwed.  It sucks that Deloitte gives you so much PTO. You just can't take any of it and if you do you have to make up for it and sometimes your project might not have the time/funds for you to do that.  So you really have to plan out vacations well ahead of time.  

Depending on your Manager/Sr. Manager/PPD it may be hard to leave a project.  If you're their star player...good luck.  Sometimes it's impossible to leave a project.  I've known a few cases where upper management wouldn't let someone roll off a project just because they need them there..even if the consultant wanted to do something else.  Ultimately they ended up leaving the firm and Deloitte lost good resources.