Company: Deloitte
Date: 2012-10-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great Compensation, be Prepared to Live for your Job
Pros: Deloitte is a great place to work for compensation, benefits, and a rich culture.  Compensation is fair and each year you get a small raise and incentive bonus if you have a decent review.
Cons: Deloitte spends alot of energy TALKING about work/life balance, but it really isn't a true priority for all the talk time it gets. I base that on the following:
1.  As an associate 7, you will be expected to perform at the same utilization level as non-management levels below you that do NOT have non-charge management tasks.  The performance management process at Deloitte is an overload on its managers.  Instead of having the direct supervisors submit their evaluations, and HR consolidate them, Managers from other teams are expected to do this twice a year.  Its like having a system with "double entry" in alot of cases, since a great number of associates only work on 1 project/year.  Additionally, these same evaluators are expected to provide career counseling to employees that are not on their team or even in many cases in the same type of project.  
2.  Deloitte has a Mass Career Customizaiton (MCC) profile that is supposed to be used to dial up or dial down workload (with the appropriate adjustments in salary based on reduced hours (sorry no increased salary for increased hours...lol!).  The problem is, no one can "dial down" their non-chargeable hours without dialing down their chargeable hours.  For someone that just dosn't want to do the "extra" work, there's no option except reducing client time too.
3.  Deloitte gives you a generous 6 weeks of leave each year (at management levels) then proceeds to tell you they don't expect you to take it.  They expect you to operate at 90% utilization, which is IMPOSSIBLE to hit if you take all of your yearly PTO and Holidays.  If you don't use it, you lose it, so basically they have cut your vacation.
Deloitte has eliminated training and learning hours requirements from the Associate model - What message does this send to the Associates?