Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-10-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Experienced Hires Stay Away
Pros: Smart people, interesting locations, impressive client roster.
Cons: Partner hierarchy and politics will make or break your experience as a Senior Manager. Deloitte's reputation for its lack of ability to integrate experienced hires is well-known.  Although there are internal efforts to improve on these efforts, it is rumored that only 1 in 10 experienced hire Senior Managers stay with the firm more than 2 years and even fewer make it to Partner. 

Lack of industry focus or expertise significantly hinders on ability to deliver quality client results. Project staff are very bright recent college graduates with no industry experience or incentive to learn intricacies since they will transition to other industry assignments multiple times before heading to get their MBA.  They are willing to work long, hard hours, but much of this time is learning the lingo and getting up to speed, rather than producing output. 

While this may be a good experience for recent graduates, experienced hires will be bored by the quality of work. Consulting client sales are focused on big platform project like IT and PI, leaving interesting strategic projects to smaller firms with more reasonable billable rates.