Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-01-31
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Very "institutional", impersonal type of work environment.
Pros: Decent starting pay, good benefits, a few good perks such as stocked break rooms, coffee stations strategically located for convenience.
Cons: Deloitte touts a strong "work-life balance" and employee-centric image. That's not really the case. It's very cold, detached and feels very institutionalized. There are a lot of time wasters that are mandatory, such as early morning touch base meetings, with other department assistants, that are really unnecessary. The optional brown bag lunches seemed as though they'd be interesting but was never able to take part. Was also not able to take part in the Earth Day program. I was in a department that lacked any personability among the Partners, Senior Managers and the other EA I worked alongside. It was an extremely uncomfortable environment.  Further, it was difficult to take full ownership of work processes as the company has different support departments (hoteling, catering, conferencing, travel) that basically do the bulk of the EA's work, while leaving each EA holding the bag if anything falls through the cracks.  Transfer requests due to the department not being a good fit are also ignored.  Parking is not subsidized. Poor raises.