Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-07-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Heartless and WAY TOO MUCH Office Politics
Pros: Coworkers; volunteer events (Impact Day); firm values; firm's investment into their employees
Cons: salary, office poitics  

Many people take credit for work other people really did in order to advance in the company or to protect themselves from lay-offs.  

It doesn't matter if you 're a great employee or a poor employee.  All that matters is that your manager thinks you're working (even if you spend 30 hours a week on Farmville).  It's more important to spend 40 hours being friends with your manager than it is actually doing your job, especially if your manager is a PPD (Principal, Partner, Director).. 

Deloitte will not hesitate to fire you OVER THE PHONE despite a satisfactory performance review.  Deloitte is trigger happy with the at-will employment option.  Deloitte will shut down your account so you don't even have a chance to look for other opportunities with the firm or say good bye to friends.

Deloitte does not want women in their 30s who may have babies.  Even upon their return, many women are terminated after a year or not given any assignments so that they can be up for termination due to "performance issues" (e.g., you're utilization sucks even though it's because the person assigning you work is too busy travelling around the US to suck up to PPDs).