Company: Deloitte
Date: 2018-02-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Deloitte Malta - Not a Deloitte member firm as you expected
Pros: If you like to work in a firm with low exposure to complex and big clients, good work life balance this is the company for you.
Cons: Overall the top management lacks the leadership skills you are get use to a big four firm (Partners and Managers).
Lack of communication between teams, people and service lines. Everyone is worry about themselves and overall there isn't trusty environment. Lack of overall planning on allocation of teams, lack of clear structure (e.g for locals the structure starts at Senior 1 - right after the university - and for foreigners start at Assistant 1, so you can have local managers with 6/7 years experience and foreigner with the same experience one/two categories below or "Seniors 1 - local" with less than one year experience and foreigners with masters being allocated as Assistant 1. Difficult to plan for the job when the category does not reflect the experience of the resources available.
They will say that there is performance bonus, but is in fact overtime payment, if only within budget, so no compensation for your commitment, quality of work or any other skills. Overall lacking of "soft skills" in all the categories, most shown in top management.
No investment and career development for foreigners. I believe that the long term strategy of the company is using foreigners to fulfill holes in the structure without caring about their development.
Related with soft skills the fees negotiation with clients are poor and very inflexible and bureaucratic process, which will reflect the budget and the pressure under the staff as well.
The work life balance is not 5 start and only 4 because the top management has a very close mind-set and flexible working hours is not seen with "good eyes", so basically if you haven't be seen working in the office you are not working at all.