Company: Deloitte
Date: 2018-05-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Typical Consulting Industry Pros and Cons
Pros: - Generally very smart, motivated, hard-working colleagues
- Promotion path is very clear and based mostly on your own ability to succeed
- Generous PTO/vacation, however can be challenging to use unless between projects or around a holiday
- Great learning opportunities and investment in people
- Many opportunities to do what you want to do - projects, industries, clients
Cons: - Lifestyle, travel, and work-life balance can be challenging
- Can be a very political environment - layers of partner-level overhead, matrixed organization with confusing reporting relationships
- Burn-out can often get to high performers at mid-career level
- Too many extracuriculars in addition to client work, many with questionable value
- Death by PowerPoint; Too often we build massive PPT decks when a simple conversation, email, or few pages is sufficient to deliver a message, we like to do work for the sake of doing work sometimes
- Lack of identity; can't figure out if we want to be a strategy firm, a tech firm, executable strategy, iOT, etc.  We want to make, sell, and monitize products but can't get out of our own way and still focus on rate per hour and utilization of people/resources.   We can't figure out if we want to invest in product development or just continue to whore-out top-talent undergrad and MBAs.
- PRD/pursuits/sales process is clumsy, shot-gun approach like, lacks focus, and creates a lot of unnecessary high-burn on people, just to check a box.  Stop burning people out on pursuits that we have a <5% chance of winning.