Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-01-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Consulting is not for everyone
Pros: -Great flexibility at work
-Various types of project exposures with good learning and development opportunities
-Clients are mostly big players in the markets which bring in very interesting projects from time to time
- Some very smart and friendly people, teams tend to be energetic and young
Cons: -Working hours can be very long depending on projects
-Ask people to spend WAY too much time on other so call practice development stuff, can be fun for people with the drive but not when you are on a project working 12 hours + per day including weekends (practice development is part of your year-end review element)
-Sometimes you get place into projects by managers that do not consider your skillsets at all. Although they will sell it as "a good opportunity to learn", but from the client's standpoint, this is an unprofessional nor responsible approach. Often consultants have the capability to learn quickly but this is usually against the promises when the firm were selling the project to the client. In addition, it gets people into stressed mode, hence I said Consulting is not for everyone.