Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-11-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Incredibly Disappointed x2
Pros: Some people are nice. Perhaps you can find camaraderie in sharing miserable experiences with others.
Cons: Where do I begin. This was my second time around, to which many Deloitte natives referred to me as a Boomerang. Because you know coming back around...yea. 

My first experience was in 2011. I worked as a lead within my highly technical group, mainly because everyone else would quit within months of being hired. It was amazing really. Within 8 months I was considered a professional hire and a team lead. Fantastic. Except when it came time for performance reviews...oh no you didn't upgrade your virus definitions, oh man the firm didn't do as well as we anticipated, awe as a practice we just didn't make those numbers. My last 48hrs as a Deloitte employee during round 1 can be summarized by my final leadership meeting beginning on a Friday afternoon whereby it was literally stated that if you're in this meeting then your job is safe, followed by my next Monday meeting whereby I'm being walked out with a box. Thanks guys. Very professional. 

Fast forward 6 years later. I've avoided working with Deloitte like the plague.  Only now my industry knowledge is suddenly valuable. The salary negotiations included telling the child negotiator that my salary base didn't include a signing bonus because that's ignorant. Then the real stupidity follows. Once I was hired there was no leadership to be found. I was asked to submit my periodic reviews to someone who admitted that they shouldn't be receiving them. I did this temporarily until i simply quit doing them. Then there's the Deloitte culture. I can only describe it as a self fulfilling prophecy of watching a plane crash. It's utterly miserable. People who believe they're better than everyone else, entitled, gossipy, totally not engaged, "INSERT_NAME_HERE will never be an effective manager like me because I have an MBA"...no joke that's a real quote. If that doesn't make your stomach churn, here's one: I joined the company for round 2. I figured different group, different people, different pay, could work this time. I joined in October. I immediately started socializing my plans to take a dream vacation to the other side of the world. Everyone knew it. Within 4 months I put in my pto request. No responses. Within 6 months I updated no less than 5 calendars, Deloitte, client, team, internal, ect. 60 days out i have people i regularly work with both in my team and on the client side asking me if I'm excited. 2 weeks out I'm being chastised by the organizational equivalent of my peer because I didn't remind him. He sat in my cubical farm row, directly behind me. 

As a "leader" that's simply not being engaged. 

Here's another gem. I just didn't quit my other job. Yea, i continued to work 2 fte jobs for the entirety. Figure that out. I'm required to show up to Deloitte, participate in client meetings, and no one from Deloitte leadership has a clue that I'm sitting at my desk working another job in a full time capacity. 

Great job Deloitte! Way to go fellas, not only are you paying entirely too much for what you're getting, you don't even know when you're not getting it. 

I left on professional terms...it's me, not you Deloitte, I need to work on me. 

I'll be back when the pay is right, and they put more idiots in middle management roles so I can double up again.

Otherwise I'd stay away from this crap-hole like your life depends on it.