Company: Deloitte
Date: 2008-06-12
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Best place to work until you have a family!
Pros: - Variety: opportunity to work across any industry if you don't yet know exactly what you're interested in
- Opportunity to work in 1 or 2 industries if you're passionate about any
- Flexibility - busy time on projects, but usually some down-time ("beach time") between projects which can be like a mini-vacation
- Variety of work if you're interested in many areas of business
- GREAT people
- Collaborative, friendly, embracing culture
- Continuous performance review, and opportunity for self-improvement and development
- Travel opportunities
- Hotel points and airline miles (i.e. free international vacations)
- Learning from your peers and senior managers about what to do and what not to do
- Opportunity to do a wide variety of activities outside client-work
- Endless learning possibilities
- Leadership positions in a variety of work- and non-work related areas
- Lots of vacation time
- Ability to take on more and more responsibility
- Closely work with very senior people who are experts in their areas, but give you opportunity to shine and contribute 
- International opportunities
- Internal mobility across the hundreds of offices around the globe
Cons: - It's a big company with a lot of systems and processes, sometimes can feel bureaucratic
- Can't get promoted much out of cycle
- Below-average pay
- Time-consuming and annoying weekly expense-reporting system
- Hard to balance work and private life due to 100% travel with projects
- Lots of long ERP systems implementation projects