Company: Deloitte
Date: 2011-12-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Stay in your place!
Pros: Excellent benefit package. 

Opportunity to build lasting relationships - Deloitte has some wonderful, creative, intelligent employees. Really the best at what they do. Network, network, network. 

Great place to hone your political skills
Cons: There are distinct classes within Deloitte - generally Deloitte Services is second class - expect some internal clients in the Functions (Tax, Audit, Consulting, etc.) to treat you like a servant rather than a teammate. Deloitte Services leadership is not so great at advocating for its team members or supporting them in client situations. 

Huge volume of communications work, and lots of demand, but nature of that communications work is repetitive and formulaic, focused mainly on process and compliance with protocols. For everything you will produce, there is a script and a scripted process. Don't expect to be stimulated. Overworked, yes. Engaged, no. 


Work/life balance is very difficult to achieve. Actual support (in actions, rather than lip-service) for work/life balance is...elusive.  

Leadership has not figured out how to foster teambuilding and help employees feel connected in its increasingly virtual environment. Especially when said teams are scattered across the country/globe. 

Pay is middling. Bonus, virtually nonexistent.