Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-04-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Perception is reality at Deloitte
Pros: - Big 4 company with pay for performance model; if you work hard enough, you will be rewarded
- Smart and hard working colleagues
- High level of professionalism
- Great place to learn how inadequate your academic education is
- Professional network booster
- Great resume builder. Recruiters love seeing Deloitte on the resume.
- Year end bonuses are nice  for Seniors and up who have earned it
- Lots of opportunities to get staffed on projects around the world
- Nice perks such as corporate discounts on a bunch of items (Deloitte Marketplace)
- You will learn to improve your physical appearance because you will be judged and made to feel inadequate if you don't.
- Promotes Darwinism in the Corporate culture, only the strong survive.
- Happy Hours covered by Partners, and Directors. Lots of food and drinks for everyone at these events.
- Office in Rosslyn is right by the metro. Very nice facility
- Walk up IT Support in Rosslyn office. Awesome team!
Cons: - High expectation for utilization. You will be expected to work all day everyday. If you have a corporate device you will be expected to check and respond to emails within a reasonable amount of time.  They promote work life balance and you earn PTO, but use at your own risk.
- Some of your colleagues are a odd combo of arrogant, insecure, and narcissistic.  Would even categorize some to have messiah complex. Be very aware and observant or else you will be railroaded.
- All about the $$. If you aren't helping the firm make $$ you will be outed.
- Did I mention its all about the $$. It is expected you sacrifice personal relationships, marriage, quality time with your family, friends, and even your health to earn the firm $$.  If you don't then it will be a development area in your performance evaluation.
- Firm is more suited for the single up and comer, or the single older person who really doesn't care for anything else in life but to work and earn the firm $$.
- Working for Deloitte gives employees a false sense of pride. "Yes I work for Deloitte, I am a 1%." Yet the reality is that their work quality does not meet their ego.
- All the extracurricular stuff:  Getting involved in proposals, annual CPE requirements, (mandatory) happy hours, community service activities that are used for PR but don't really benefit anyone except the firm.
- Is a legalized ponzi scheme, once you accept this reality and are willing to sacrifice everything to succeed you may be one of the fortunate ones to make it to PPD.
- HR will try and strongarm/force you onto projects and roles that do not fit your skillset, or have much opportunity for growth. New hires, do not succumb to the fear of being on the bench your first few months with the firm. Where you first start has a huge impact on your development as a professional and within the firm.  There are several projects that are considered "consultant graveyards".