Company: Deloitte
Date: 2011-08-27
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

This place is more a  stop along the career path, not necessarily a destination
Pros: - Generally very smart, motivated, hard-working colleagues
- Promotion path is very clear and based mostly on your own ability to succeed
- Generous PTO/vacation, however can be challenging to use unless between projects or around a holiday
- Great learning opportunities and investment in people
- Many opportunities to do what you want to do - projects, industries, clients
Cons: - Lifestyle, travel, and work-life balance can be challenging
- Can be a very political environment - layers of partner-level overhead, matrixed organization with confusing reporting relationships
- Burn-out can often get to high performers at mid-career level
- Too many extracuriculars in addition to client work, many with questionable value
- Too often we build massive PowerPoint decks when a simple conversation, email, or few pages is sufficient to deliver a message, we like to do work for the sake of doing work sometimes