Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-10-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Overall, disappointing
Pros: Some very clever SME’s around. Great place to learn consulting with unlimited opportunities and a good set of clients.
Cons: Work/life balance was the worst I’d had in 20+ years in consulting. Often working 5 days a week away from home and on the rare occasion I wasn’t on client site then was in the office - so missed children’s birthdays, parents evenings etc. I now see with COVID that 4 UK offices are closing with 100% WFH, so perhaps the pandemic has moved the firm in the right direction. 

Many of the Partners have come through the ranks from consultants - in some ways it’s great to see this opportunity, but unfortunately you’re left with a set of institutionalised Partners that have never worked anywhere else and are actually pretty inexperienced. This would explain some poor behaviours amongst some Partners that would not be accepted elsewhere. 

The partnership model also has its issues - this is not a hierarchical business with strong management top-down, but run more like a democracy. What you’re left with is a diluted strategy. For example some Partners wanted to do more with SAP, but others see the risks so the firm at the moment is generally not a hands on SAP System Integrator but more a Business Integrator - perhaps the recent acquisition of Keytree will change this.