Company: Deloitte
Date: 2016-10-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great place to start a career
Pros: Smart people, literally everywhere you look.

They spend the money and provide the time for some fantastic training and personal development opportunities

Great brand recognition and a good name for your CV

Good IT infrastructure.
Cons: The business model (e.g. partnership model) only works if the firm is growing, and that is highly contingent on wider economic forces. If the firm isn't growing revenues and partners aren't moving on, then promotions stop at higher levels and the effect is felt all the way down.

You'll be underpaid and overworked relative to peers in industry for every year which you aren't a partner.

Some clients (PE houses, investment banks etc) are hugely demanding and will happily ask a question at 5pm on a Friday that they need an answer to at 8am on Monday. I spent a lot of evenings and weekends in the office.

If you join as a graduate you'll spend a lot of time in the first few years making tea and doing the most mindless of work.