Company: Deloitte
Date: 2015-11-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

I thought I wanted to be a consultant...
Pros: Deloitte is a great name to add to a resume; it represents a well respected, well suited, nearly-cliche consultancy. There are of course some great people here - go-getters who generally don't sleep, brilliant strategists, and driven to sincerely attack their personal mission goals.
Cons: Deloitte is effectively a huge capitalistic pyramid. It is important to go into this line of work with eyes wide open to this fact. 

The bottom line of this business is billing for your time but your job is less about working through your project and more about finding the next project that will staff you. Plan on spending 50-60 hours of work per week (sure, it's a professional career not 9-5 working at Target) + domestic travel (red-eyes, delays, and gaming the points system comes with the territory) + monitored self improvement programs (click through this training program for 25 hours over the next 10 weeks) + helping the partner track down new business (hope you didn't have plans this weekend).