Company: Deloitte
Date: 2014-06-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

The people are great to work with but the overall leadership does not care about you as an employee.
Pros: In consulting, you will work with the best consultants who are smart, capable, driven, and strive for excellence. I would hire Deloitte to do any consulting work if I were a client. Having Deloitte on your resume can get you in the door with many other organizations and they strive to provide you with the right training and experience to succeed.
Cons: In the Consulting practice, you do not have a good work/life balance. You are rated against a ridiculous utilization metric that uses PTO AGAINST you. You have a lot of firm activities to participate in outside of your normal 45+ hour workweek. You are expected to work full 9-10 hour days on top of taking offshore calls with the India team. That is on top of the travel you do that is on YOUR time. Leadership is especially horrible to women who are pregnant, on maternity leave, or returning from leave. You will automatically get a below average rating and therefore not get a bonus/raise. I've known 4 women including myself who have experienced this. If you are a woman, please do not bother working in the Consulting practice here. Any indication that you put family first will result in an immediate bad rating which will continue until you leave the firm.