Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-09-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Competitive and collaborative at the same time, A bit like the TV show “Survivor”
Pros: Variety of clients, projects and colleagues. You can do what you like at more senior levels, so long as you’re making money for the firm. Good learning for juniors (if you can swallow the low pay).
Cons: “Cult of the partner”, a mutual admiration society where partners strut around and stroke each other’s egos like the cool kids in an 80’s high school movie. In team events and meetings it’s always about partner self congratulation, rarely about celebrating the people doing the great work. The competitive environment brings out the best and worst in people. The joy of helping clients and problem solving can get eroded by the internal jostling, turf grabbing and a few too many sub-par partners who got there because they had a good year, schmoozed the right leadership or created a “shiny object” (scaleable offering) and have since carved out a comfortable little niche to live out the rest of their days.