Company: Deloitte
Date: 2010-12-16
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great place to extend your career, maybe not to start one or finish one
Pros: Great collaboration software and ability to interact with international community. Yammer, wikis blogs etc. You can interact with the CEO Giam virtually .
Giam is a great leader, really has his head screwed on right. Senior management are inspiring.
Support for women and differing ethnicities is fantastic
Great people to work with that have strong work ethic, commitment to quality.
Autonomous and supportive of new business opportunities.
Good social opportunities to make new friends especially for juniors.
Cons: When you get past the gloss there is little content supporting client facing operations, delivery of challenging work is due to skills of employees gained outside of deloitte. Juniors develop useful technical skills purely due to mentoring by senior staff on the job.
Partners promote those like them, very rare to have a technically capable partner, most are squeezers who take advantage of staff or management by spreadsheet types. Middle management at the partner level has a sleazy kind of feel. Those aspiring to be partner as well. 
No time allocated to take advantage of elearning opportunities..
So many meetings, performance management commitments and non billable "stuff" allocated by partners that you end up catching up on billable work and proposals outside of working hours.
HR is ineffective despite massive performance management culture, personnel that should have been performance managed out due to personality problems, abusive attitudes to counselees were not. Support for those that crack up due to the strain non existent, you are advised to call an outsourced employee assistance program. 
Employees chewed up and spat out. They bring in useful skills that atrophy due to lack of training opportunities and time to self educate, eventually they are no longer relevant technically. 
Expected to be married to the job, cult like culture. Very difficult to switch off due to the pressure of massive unrealistic expectations.work from home opportunities just brings the stress into the home and extend the working day into the night. If you don't have a mega supportive spouse don't think about working in a senior capacity there it's a recipe for divorce.