Deloitte Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Great for professional development
emphasis on ownership and leadership

Cons

Too much emphasis on firm related activities

Advice to Senior Management

Change the performance management model to reduce importance given to firm activities, mostly the office activities.

Pros

Smart driven people who are interested in your career development
An ability to gain experiences across industries and functions
Exposure to senior executives at leading companies

Cons

Significant travel requirements
Long work hours and significant time investment outside of client work

Pros

Good Compensation
Travel perks
Lots of learning
Variety of work
Working in various industries

Cons

Travel is really hard
Difficult to balance work/life
Focus on utilization

Advice to Senior Management

Consider more flex projects so people don't burn out from travel.

Pros

Working with the clients and projects

Cons

Too much travel and the office committee

Advice to Senior Management

More local projects, communicate better with staff

Pros

Excellent benefit package.

Opportunity to build lasting relationships - Deloitte has some wonderful, creative, intelligent employees. Really the best at what they do. Network, network, network.

Great place to hone your political skills

Cons

There are distinct classes within Deloitte - generally Deloitte Services is second class - expect some internal clients in the Functions (Tax, Audit, Consulting, etc.) to treat you like a servant rather than a teammate. Deloitte Services leadership is not so great at advocating for its team members or supporting them in client situations.

Huge volume of communications work, and lots of demand, but nature of that communications work is repetitive and formulaic, focused mainly on process and compliance with protocols. For everything you will produce, there is a script and a scripted process. Don't expect to be stimulated. Overworked, yes. Engaged, no.

Work/life balance is very difficult to achieve. Actual support (in actions, rather than lip-service) for work/life balance is...elusive.

Leadership has not figured out how to foster teambuilding and help employees feel connected in its increasingly virtual environment. Especially when said teams are scattered across the country/globe.

Pay is middling. Bonus, virtually nonexistent.

Advice to Senior Management

Be trustworthy
Be transparent
Make an effort to build and stay connected to the teams that you lead
Treat Deloitte Services like its really matters
Take a good hard look at Deloitte's rigid hierarchy and kill-yourself-to-make-Partner culture

Pros

Great place to begin your career and gain vailauble knowledge that will help in the future. The work is very challenging and engaging.

Cons

The hours are very demanding, and hard work is not always recognized. It is a very "political" place to work as far as promotions, raises, etc.

Pros

Bright People
Pay is level with industry average
Opportunity to experience many different industries and companies
Respected name
Travel and expense account

Cons

The review process can be a bit flimsy. There are pretty standard rules for when promotions happen and these are not broken. Managers often have favourites and take care of their own. This will be the same at other consulting companies as well though.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more opportunities for flexible work arrangements or alternative positions so that employees to not leave after two and a half years on avg.

Pros

Great Pay, Great Job, Great People.

Cons

Absolutely none Deloitte was fantastic

Advice to Senior Management

up the offer rates

Pros

It's a great place to work. The people there are really nice. There is lots of room to move up.

Cons

I didn't have many problems. Sometimes the work load can get a it crazy, but it's still managable. The pay could be better.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe offer higher salaries? I feel that lots of people leave this firm in order to look for more money somewhere else.

Pros

Deloitte offers a breadth of experiences that are hard to come across in other firms and industries - not only are you able to work on extremely diverse projects, but also given the opportunity to lead and participate in a wealth of internal initiatives and community service projects.

Cons

The size of the firm and it's accounting background sometimes hinders how flexible and responsive we can be in the consulting marketplace.