Company: Deloitte
Date: 2008-07-24
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Good Place, Where Networking Trumps Everything
Pros: - Great career opportunities in IT, audit, tax
- Good pay, compared to other IT consulting companies (Accenture, IBM, etc)
- You can use a combination of technical and business knowledge in solving client problems. It is not one or the other.
- They try to staff projects regionally. This reduces cross-country travel.
- The general work and travel environments are good.
Cons: - Project staffing as well as career rise is driven more by who you know than your competence. Deloitte has taken the "networking is everything" sentiment too far.
- Projects, typically, are short (3 months or so). Therefore, there is a constant need to work to get the next project.
- Regional staffing, combined with a who-you-know model, feels a bit like nepotism. Regional staffing also has a positive (see above).
- Not much offshore development