Company: Deloitte
Date: 2018-05-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

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Pros: Deloitte is an excellent place to launch your career after college. The firm offers an array of learning opportunities to build foundational consulting skills and learn a variety of industry-leading methodologies. The HR model encourages practitioners to choose projects that more closely align with career goals, rather than aligning people only to specific accounts or industries. 

I stayed at Deloitte for eight years largely due to the culture. The collegial and entrepreneurial culture empowers people to do their best work!
Cons: Not ideal for parents. I left because I became a parent and simply couldn't sacrifice my personal time anymore to keep up with the firm's demands. To clarify, Deloitte demands their practitioners to contribute to internal initiatives and time-sensitive proposals. These demands cause practitioners to burn out. Evenings and weekends are spent working. While Deloitte boasts about their flexibility benefits, the truth is only few practitioners advantage of these, with the exception of parental leave which is great. 

The partners widely promote and recognize practitioners who dedicate most of their personal time to the firm.  This sends a message that the only way to succeed is to make major sacrifices to your personal time; hence, many practitioner choose not to exercise the flexibility benefits. This also hurts Deloitte's culture inclusivity because parents feel excluded from those who can afford to work most evenings and weekends.