Company: Deloitte
Date: 2011-03-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Not the worst place to work but pay is not great because partners take home such huge pay. We won't all make partner!
Pros: Market leader in some areas, interesting work and big clients. Good opportunities training wise, most people on the graduate scheme will be put through a well respected external qualification and further study is usually paid for, with study leave provided in addition.
Cons: Pay is not good for the commitment, talent, and hard work expected. Partners take home phenomenal pay - but we won't all make it partnership. Deloitte don't always make the most of people's individual talents, its easy to get overlooked if you don't fit quite a boring/narrow mould. Promotion and recognition prospects are hugely varied - some departments are generous about performance evaluation, others require a lot more for you to progress. You have to be really quite senior before you get any sort of opportunity to genuinely build up real client relationships - junior contact is often limited largely to emails, a few calls, and very very occasional meetings where there is usually no chance for you to speak/contribute/interact, so little chance to engage with the client. There's no sense of end game when developing people - I have often got the impression that they would rather have a lot of consistently reliable mediocre people than help you focus your talents and help you to make them work for the firm.