Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-04-22
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great place to get your feet wet if you can swim and thrive in fast paced, changing environment
Pros: Exciting to be part of initial and major transformation and growth of talent services organization to support all functions - with lots of opportunity to make/build something of value with consistent strategy.
Unlike IPOs - Partners are your clients and you get to work with them. 
Moving to "shared-services" model enables the organization to concentrate and share its expertise where needed - so if you have expertise you may have greater opportunity to share.
Organizations ability to adapt and change fast.
Cons: Environment can be overwhelming (may feel like blind leading the blind). Too many clients. Diverse internal micro-cultures (and politics). Clients/sponsors change quickly as does personnel in roles. Recipe for success seems to be stay in role for max of 2 years then move to another role. While change is healthy, it poses a challenge. With churn - challenge is lack of  sustained knowledge and skill to be effective in roles (a lot of reinventing the wheel - just new language and veneer). Lack of awareness or value placed on expertise/craft requirements to be effective - what it really takes. If you and your team are good at what you do, do it seamlessly without fanfare - it may go unrecognized. In addition, it will likely increase your workload as demand for your services increase - throwing work life balance out of whack.