Deloitte Reviews in Australia

Pros

Career progression, great leaders in senior management, job security

Cons

Salary, lack of benefits, pay

Pros

-Good projects
-Opportunity to travel
-Smart people
-Performance based pay

Cons

-Work-life balance does not exist
-Compensation is low
-Senior management treat you as just another number
-Poor training outside of Melbourne and Sydney offices
-Lack of support for interstate travel

Advice to Senior Management

Treat staff like real people.

Pros

Seniorship involved at all levels

Cons

Working travels, short project deadlines

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on with the good job

Pros

The people and culture are alone worth it

Cons

Lack of straight talk and an often dysfunctional performance process

Advice to Senior Management

A bit more effort in moving towards a true meritocracy

Pros

Good opportunites and Good learning ground. There are some partners from whom you can lean a lot, both technically and commercially.

Cons

Pay structure is lower than competitors
No bonus
Need to be very shrewed to survice in this organisation - ie you cannot be naive about anything around you

Advice to Senior Management

Need to understand that the people are the main assets of the firm and need to take care of them well.

There is a lot of lip service tha happens here which everyone knows.

Pros

Deloitte was full of talented individuals, with diverse work to engage in, a big pipeline of projects, established methodologies that we readily able to be applied.

Cons

This wasn't exactly what i signed up for. As a consultant, you are assigned to projects based on business needs, not on your skills and abilities. There is a lack of focus on assigning the right talent to the right projects, and the individuals suffer as a a result. Deloitte regularly indoctrinates that they only hire the best and brightest, so that leaves little comfort level for individuals to address their dissatisfaction with the "system." People basically then "take it on the chin" until they are simply ready to walk out the door. Lacking in strategic work and skills, even though they advertise that they are one of the biggest in the market for such expertise.

Advice to Senior Management

Get more involved in what the day-to-day of consulting is for your teams. Pitch and price the engagements properly so they are adequately staffed. Don't let your underbidding of the projects come out of the backs of your hard-working employees, take it off your profitability lines. Attrition will be hitting hard, and sooner than you know, if you don't start taking care of your people. Your best and brightest WILL leave if they continue to burn at the rates they are.

Pros

Good commercial experience and smart people

Cons

Top heavy with too many partners and directors

Advice to Senior Management

Need to remove the top heavy structure of the coy

Pros

Friendly and smart people to work with, learn a lot, good support for CA. A good way to start your career and good for the resume.

Cons

If you want Deloitte expect to find poor senior management, arrogance, low pay and high hours. Is really quite the same as other firms even though its branded as being different.

Pros

Although I have only recently joined Deloitte, I have been really happy so far with the role that I am performing, the people I am working with and the opportunities that have arised. Deloitte allows me to innovate and add value whilst providing me with the support to do so. I feel that I am recognised for the hard work I put in and the ideas that I put forward. Furthermore, my team have been very supportive in ensuring that my work-life balance is balanced!

The leadership at Deloitte is very open and they do a great job communicating changes and inititatives to the organisation so you always feel included and as though you are an integral part of the organisation.

Lastly, Deloitte is really great about open communication when it comes to moving around within the organisation, they don't want you to get bored in your role and support you if you want to explore internal opportunities. This is really refreshing and is true to one of their values, to recruit and retain the best.

Cons

Working in a partnership is a little different to working in a publicly listed organisation so there is a hierarchy, it is imperative that you make the right impression on the right people but I think that this is the same anywhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing and find new ways to do it even better!

Pros

Management Consulting arm is very strong. Breadth and depth of opportunities great. Work with some highly talented and intelligent people.

Cons

Across management consulting work life balance is a challenge - and it's no different here. Travel demands within Australia can be excessive.

Advice to Senior Management

Get the work life balance thing right - or you will struggle with the upcoming talent shortage ... Pay and hours do not compare favourably with industry.