Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-05-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A lot of lip service to how great the company is
Pros: - Smart, hardworking colleagues
- Opportunities to learn at Deloitte University
- Internal growth opportunities
- Every industry is serviced by Deloitte so you can get a variety of professional exposure
- Lots of travel pre-COVID. So you can rack up many frequent flyer miles and hotel points
- Many opportunities for networking
- Great benefits, pay, and lots of PTO... If you ever get the opportunity to use it.
Cons: - Your experience is totally dependent on your manager and teams with which you work. A bad manager or overly demanding team can ruin your experience.
- There is a lot off lip service to work-life balance, but higher ups will say it's about work-life INTEGRATION. No thank you.
- Calls. Calls. CALLS! I feel like I live on the phone... I spend 20+ hours every week on the phone, and I'm not even at manager level. Not what I signed up for at all. You can expect to be on calls at any given hour from 7am to 9pm. I had the privilege of being on calls every morning the week of Thanksgiving from 7 to 8am. 
- People are constantly changing positions. In the specific business I work for, my boss changed positions before I even joined. This was after my predecessor changed positions. My lateral colleagues also changed positions within my first year so I was basically left high and dry to figure everything out on my own. I've also noticed that there is a lot of turnover within my business and people cite a lack of work-life balance as the reason.
- Priorities are constantly shifting, creating an insurmountable workload with too few resources to cover, which leads to unavoidable burnout.
- I thought I would get a great onboarding experience, followed by a lot of opportunities to learn and develop new skills. Neither of those things have occurred.
- I left a small company in search of skill development and more thoroughly developed business processes. Deloitte has many processes in place but they are overly complicated and severely slow down any impactful productivity. I've learned that I'm much prefer the pace and learning opportunities of a small company.
- The company really throws the inclusivity and liberal beliefs in your face. Again, a lot of lip service, but not sure how much these inclusion and humanitarian efforts play out in reality.