Deloitte Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Smart people, challenging projects, good perks

Cons

high travel, work life imbalance

Pros

Great group of people overall. Deloitte is a hugh supporter of special interest groups and enables diversity and fairness throughout the company. Some great internal educational opportunities - somewhat curbed due to national and global financial situation.

Cons

As with any large organization, some individuals are promoted or are grandfathered into their management roles with little or no experience. There remains a division between external client facing consulting effort and interal operational support. This is due to lack of real understanding between operational teams and external offices. Made things tense and not always easy to get things done.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to support local and global diversity within Deloitte.

Pros

Great people, great experiences.
Incredible investment in people and development of competencies
Work with top companies to make significant impact

Cons

100% travel
Hard to maintain friendships and family life in the city where you live
Internally groups can be cliquey and difficult to enter.

Advice to Senior Management

Always maintain the superb level of integrity that I have seen in practice. Take only good work, serve your clients, build your people, and keep the flexibility in work.

Pros

Benefits, salary, support, professional growth

Cons

Difficult as administrative assistant to grow into other role

Advice to Senior Management

More career path options for operations staff

Pros

Good salary
Reasonable work/life balance relative to other firms

Cons

Never will be McK, BCG, Bain despite their efforts to the contrary
Huge race for the strategic work in S&O

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have a clear strategy on the direction of the firm, and provide that clear differentiation to recruits, particularly on MBA campuses. Most Senior Consultants are disillusioned when they arrive and realize that the bread and butter work is highly process-driven or operational in nature, not strategic like what they were clamoring for.

Pros

My team was collaborative, helpful, fun, and serious about integrity. But you must be able to work alone as well. No one babysits you.

Cons

Company culture is also determined by the managing partner. If you don't have management with strong people skills, you need solid self esteem to succeed.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many silos remain in management. Encourage opportunities for employees to join cross-function or cross-business teams.

Pros

Very good place to work at as the first job.

Cons

There is too much traveling.

Advice to Senior Management

Good leadership.

Pros

Great pay, great company to have on your resume, beautiful offices and lots of lunches catered. I was fortunate to have been a part of some exciting projects. Great learning experience.

Cons

Very political. Senior management is officious and incompetent. Lots of ideas, nothing gets accomplished. Bad apples at the top spoil the bunch. No autonomy to make decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

More communication is needed between business units, empower employees to make decisions, less focus on company notoriety and more focus on work achievements. Moral will follow with actual accomplishments.

Pros

Great place to start your career. Trainings and e-leanings are helpful in teaching their employees. Set promotions each year. Path to move up is well-defined.

Cons

No work life balance, management says thaty promote work life balance, but only when it suits them
Everyone is out for themselves

Advice to Senior Management

Don't preach work life balance when you are in a client service industry and need to be there when your clients need you.

Pros

Opportunities
Great exposure
Lot of smart people

Cons

Work life balance
Politics, if for some reason one of the Partner does not like you, most probably your career is stuck
Score cards are a joke

Advice to Senior Management

Give HR more authority