Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-01-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great benefits but are deceiving
Pros: Great Benefits, lasting relationships with people that can be friends, can be easy to do task that does not look at your education, has training opportunities
Cons: Overworked, low bonuses, hard to transfer to other offices, hard to transfer to work worldwide, too much red tape, training opportunities ONLY favor certain line of individuals, too much politics, so many to name. Here is my long story:

I started at Deloitte as a Associate level now known as Project Delivery. I had about five interviews in one day and I highly prepared for it, but it was nothing like a case study it was more like a typical interview; strength, weaknesses, why should we pick you and etc. Later I was talking with a PPD about my salary and what I should earn. I negotiated as best as I could but had no other offers, so I was low balled. I was hired and satisfied. 

Coming orientation day; they gave me the wrong address and I ended being late. Really nice :-/. Anyways I was lucky to be staffed as many people were just entering the firm with no project. The orientation promised all these things such as training opportunities, Deloitte University, be able to travel, be able to move to other offices, and be able to work worldwide. While yes these are all true it's ONLY for some. Everyone does not get these opportunities. I only found out later that these were just ways to make people "excited." 

My first project was a nightmare; management treated me like total garbage. Between the words I was worthless, not learning any skills and I would fail. They actually set me up for failure. When I finally was told to roll off I had to go to ethics as they told other projects not to hire me because my counselor at that time was best friends with the PM. It was really petty and disgusting that they wanted to ruin my career. I fought back hard and won and I was able to find a project more comfortably. I would say it was a long fight and prepare to be stressed if this ever happens. I had to talk to several offices, people, and had many countless nights of no sleep because I really thought my world was crashing down. I found out later the PM an assistant manager was having relations in the office late at night and during the day as someone I knew caught them in the act. One of the managers still works at Deloitte today which I find very troubling. 

Finally another project hired me and I am still with them. They can be a great set of people but so many manager shifts that it makes it tiring at times. Sometimes management just makes excuses to not let you obtain your goals and tons of red tape. 

Associates became project delivery analysts and I have been stuck at this service line since I been hired. I been wanting to move out but there are so many rules and regulations that I always get rejected or hear another excuses. Project delivery people cant go to Deloitte University because we have to be 100% client deliverable; we do not get bench time either. Yes its a very predictable schedule but very hard to grow as a person. They want you to stay at your same role for long periods of time and they do not really like you to even move around lie consultants or specialists are allowed. 

My last opportunity was a disaster as new people were hired and took this project I wanted to join. This would have been my way to switch tracks but of course Deloitte gave them funding and I was left in the dirt. Its unfortunate that people like this get to move up while throwing others under the bus. 

Overall: It has great benefits and training opportunities but only for some. Others will not be able to grow and management can actually be helpful at times but Deloitte is filled with so much red tape it's discouraging. I feel at my age (which I am in my 30's) that I am stuck and do not know my next move sadly.