Company: Deloitte
Date: 2021-01-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

An excellent stepping stone in your career, but shouldn't be anything more...
Pros: - Awesome perks when traveling (not applicable during covid)
- Generous expense policy (not applicable during covid)
- Great support for travel (i.e. hotlines, etc.) (not applicable during covid)
- Great opportunities to gain experience if you're eager and direct with what you can and can't do
- Great networking opportunities. You can build a great network that will provide you a number of better job opportunities outside of Deloitte when they eventually leave
- I've met some of the closest friends and mentors here
- I've met people from all different types of backgrounds and stories. Some are Ivy league MBA graduates and others didn't even earn there college degrees
Cons: - Tremendous amounts of politics 
- Awful WLB. Your leadership always expects you to perform at the next level. The norm here is to perform at a level higher than you're getting paid...think about that.
- Your "network" determines how successful you are here. Make sure you have a coach that supports you and a team that is solid
- You can easily fall into a bad network where you have abusive leadership that will keep you around and decide your next projects 
- Heavy reliance on offshore teams. While some offshore teams are solid, I think it introduces a lot of risk of things falling through the cracks and generally makes WLB awful
- Not exciting compensation growth opportunities. Unless you boomerang or threaten to leave and have a solid offer to back it up, you can perpetually be stuck in a "low" pay band
- Sometimes you'll have projects staffed with people who don't have hands-on experience with the product, but a similar one instead. This is frustrating for obvious reasons. Not every product is the same.
- The amount of time it takes for Promo cycles and paycheck increases to kick in is absurd. After the performance year, it takes an additional 6 months of reviews before your title, compensation and bonus kick in. Think about that, working a total of 18 months before you actually see your bonus or promo...
- High turnover. Consulting is obviously not for everyone, but that makes it insanely difficult to build a strong network. In 3 years of working here, 80% of the people in my network have left already
- The culture can be exhausting if you have a network that is super Type A and insists on working around the clock
- If you're not traveling, all of the good things about consulting pretty much go out the window