Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-12-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

You think you know, but you don't
Pros: great technology, benefits, and if you don't mind traveling and frequent flyer points/miles, it's bonus!  I've been able to establish great professional and personal relationships here, in addition to developing my consulting skills.
Cons: Poor work-life balance. Deloitte has a great approach to work-life balance and it's talked about at almost every training or meeting, but it's not realistic, unless you don't mind 'managing up' to your project leads and setting expectations around the time you're going to have to yourself. Practice Development (business development or proposal work) takes up a tremendous amount of your after-hours time. The proposal process is so disjointed, I'm sure clients look at it and wonder how Deloitte gets any new business. I'd love to know how many new clients the consulting practice has picked up. 

Leadership:  if your Sr. Manager is up for Director, you will not have great support nor leadership in the project because they are busy working on their "deck" and meeting metrics so they're not fully engaged. Then you get Sr.  Managers placed on a project who are on they way out of the door.  These individuals add NO value to the project and are more of a hinderance than anything.  Just don't staff them and send them in their way. Then there are Sr.  Managers who lucked up on the 'gravy train' and are able to rise to success of their PPD, but are unable to deliver on anything else once all the 'gravy' has been 'sopped up'.   Here is where networking is important because then you can find a PPD to add you to a project so that you can meet your #s.  

Experienced hires, Stay Away if you can. There's not a lot of support for your transition to this culture, and they are raising Stepford children (analysts/consultants). I have had the opportunity to work with some who are AWESOME, however, there are those who want to be on the fast track to success and need to know professional decorum.  Don't get me wrong, these young people are bright, but they don't know 'business', they know what they've been taught in business school. BIG DIFFERENCE.