Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-06-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great short-term learning and professional growth experience
Pros: - Challenging workplace that forces you outside of your comfort zone - provides unparalleled learning experiences at the beginning of one's career. 
- Leader within its marketplace. Project opportunities are with blue chip clients.
- Generally good people, many of whom became friends outside of work.
Cons: - Consulting is a loose term and Deloitte is not a strategy firm; rather, the Firm provides clients with intelligent individuals as short- to medium-term staff augmentation. Consultants are focused on executing operational tasks that do not require innovative thinking. Projects become mundane quickly.

- Size. It's a behemoth. Unfortunately, as an employee, it felt too big for its own good. Service areas fought against each other for business and it was difficult to find a sense of engagement with the broader Firm. The values and experiences that tenured practitioners reminisced about fondly were completely different from the current state of the Firm's culture. 

- "PRD" (aka extracurriculars) - there is a heavy focus on non-billable work to "support Firm development." Essentially its free labor for Deloitte that practitioners are forced into, but are never truly thanked/recognized for after hitting (or surpassing) the status quo.