Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-01-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Long drawn, and not for the type who yearn for new challenges.
Pros: Great managers and good culture. People are very receptive to thoughts. There may be politics, but good people ultimately shine through and get their due. However, not much is done to tackle core problems.
Cons: The quality of work can be a bummer, especially at the US India offices which get their work from the US. I don't remember using my brains ever. This isn't a good fit for the engineer type. It is a great place for the ones from an accounting background.

There is absolutely NO work life balance. It is common knowledge and everybody laughs about it, but it's not funny. I don't remember ever working less than 10 hours a day, even on the sunniest of days. Not to despise working hard, but it can get pretty monotonous working on backoffice jobs and working till very late at night (12 AM on average), to discuss work with the onsite team in the US.

Begging for chargeable hours is a pain, and more often than not, one is left charging a lot less than one has worked. People often try to keep the US team happy by not stretching the budget, in effect losing morale and working on weekends. THAT is not the way to go.

I only wished I exited early to a place that gave you greater challenges than sorting out stuff on excel until late at night on a Friday. I remember my days at Deloitte as filled with drudgery and pain, even though I was doing well.