Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-02-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Depends on where in Deloitte
Pros: Professional financial controls and talent management make for a stable generally well-run firm; wonderful small communities within a larger firm so your experience can be quite different depending on where you end up. I am currently with a niche somewhat boutique practice that was acquired by Deloitte and they have been great so far about preserving the working models that are critical to how we get our work done and investing in growing our practice. Being with the larger firm provides access to some professionally managed back-end services like IT support or HR.
Cons: Large company can be hard to navigate to find expertise within a large firm. Being part of an audit firm requires compliance with restrictive independence rules and creates added complexity to conducting business with clients. Lots of decisions by very large committees to get things done in the organization can be frustrating. Sometimes seemingly layers and layers of people to coordinate with for what seems like relatively simple activities. Things like benefits seem to be run completely out of a 1-800 call center so it was jarring to never really get to talk to a "real" person. Lots of emails from random people to filter through.