Company: Deloitte
Date: 2019-10-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Poor engineering, reasonable culture
Pros: The company really puts some effort into trying to build a good working environment, as long as you fit into the environment.

There's a fair amount of workplace flexibility.

If you do happen to like what they do, or you fit into an area where you're not exposed to the worst of it, then it's
Cons: The poster-child for Conway's Law. As a partner-led organisation every little stream wants to get their nose into the trough, so solutions are driven by finding every little way to such the customer dry.

There's a lot of group think. Too many people have been in Deloitte or similar organisations for much of their careers which leads to a grossly overinflated sense of their own competence, particularly since consulting tends to be very fire-and-forget. The tendency for specialisation means that it's very hard to try to get people to take a solution view of a project because they just want to defend their bit of turf.

Technically it's very fashion driven. There's a big thing about being to seen to be 'leading' which typically just means promoting whatever's currently trendy regardless of whether it make any sense for the customer. Leave your professional ethics at the door.

A small number of people really set the agenda. You're pretty much in a straightjacket if you don't want to do what they're currently into.

Deloitte IT policies are so terrible that many people in our area choose Macs just because Deloitte ITS hasn't figured out how to lock them down as much, and they can get to a WiFi network that passes Git traffic. Many of us just give up an resort to using mobile dongles.