Company: Deloitte
Date: 2020-09-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Incredibly Toxic Culture
Pros: Deloitte is a powerful brand and gives you good experience. Two years or more here WILL open doors for you elsewhere. Deloitte also does a great job of showing you what a deliverable should look like. The company is big and there’s generally a lot of opportunity to try new things.
Cons: 1. The culture at Deloitte is utterly toxic. There is no division for work-life balance and employees frequently behave like high schoolers to each other. In my two years at Deloitte across several major accounts there was constant drama within my vicinity that I had to deal with / avoid on a daily basis. Working through office politics was often harder than the job itself.
2. Federal contracting is broken. This isn’t necessarily D’s fault but most projects objectively fail or otherwise do not contribute any meaningful value to federal clients. It often ends up feeling like stealing with extra steps.
3. The sausage making is obscene. I observed multiple fresh-out-of-state-college kids be billed as highly specialized subject matter experts to their client which was at least very wrong and at most...much worse. Deliverables often get slapped together last minute and clients routinely called us out for making things up as we went.