Company: Deloitte
Date: 2017-01-30
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

C tier consulting firm at best
Pros: 1. Good work life balance because there's plenty of bench time

2. Decent brand name to have on your resume
Cons: 1. Very unimpressive managers/senior managers/directors - the higher-ups you work with on projects are mediocre at best when it comes to their quality of work. If you can't attract top talent at a senior level, you're never ever going to be able to be industry-leading

2. Lack of talent at a junior level as well - when you offer fresh grads below-average starting salaries and unattractive career packages, you're definitely not going to get the best of the best; you're going to get MBB, ATK and ACN rejects. And naturally, you can't then go on to compete with MBB/ATK/ACN on projects with second-rate consultants, can you?

3. Placing a higher value on social skills/politics rather than on performance - plenty of unexceptional individuals across levels tend to rise up really quickly/get plenty of project opportunities by sucking up to the partners, taking them out for meals (including on weekends, together with their spouses) and playing politics. Although I've not personally experienced this, I've seen managers who are brilliant at their job stay at the same level for years simply because they choose to focus on their job and don't bother sucking up, or because they've somehow offended a partner. It's expected that consulting is an inherently biased industry that is relationship-focused, but Deloitte Consulting takes this to a whole new level.

4. Vague service offering - senior managers often complain about the fact that Deloitte Consulting has an undefined, unclear value proposition. In other words, we aren't known for anything and instead, bid for any project that comes our way. While other firms have established themselves as the go-to firms for various service offerings (MBB for strategy, accenture for SI etc), Deloitte Consulting has yet to establish a clear focus on any service offerings, and we simply aren't known for anything