Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-07-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great place for professional growth and build your network.
Pros: Great opportunities for professional development.  Deloitte invests in their practitioners and care about the career path that you take.  The coaches and counselors support you for the most part, but it depends on who you're paired with.  Most are great counselors who will vouch for your hard work, but if you're ever in a situation where you're stuck with a not-so-great counselor, Deloitte allows you to change your counselor once per year.  

Amazing place to build your network, you'll meet people across various service lines, service areas and in different functions, and someone in some way will always be willing to help you should you require any advice in being successful on your project.
Cons: The firm truly believes in work/life balance.  This is a great place for professional growth and building a strong network, but be prepared to work.  It's a competitive firm, and it shows by the firm's rigorous performance evaluation process at year end.  Know that among your peers, there will always be someone better, someone who contributed more hours in proposal development and someone who just went that extra mile.  If you're not phased by this, then yes it is possible to have a feasible work/life balance.  Otherwise, be prepared to work, to the point where work/life balance comes off as a joke whenever you hear it.