Deloitte Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Good Brand recognition, Market value and opportunities.

Cons

Project to project based work with unsurerity

Pros

The people, benefits, and atmosphere

Cons

The hours and lack of communication

Advice to Senior Management

Employees need to feel appreciated.

Pros

Great work-life balance and opportunity

Cons

Intense work load and long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on your people!

Pros

Able to get a lot of exposure to various clients and industries in a short time frame. Also, you get the opportunity to get a lot of management and leadership experience.

Cons

Very long hours that require late nights and weekends. Travel is Monday-Thursday every week. You always have to network hard to get on good projects.

Advice to Senior Management

Deloitte is a great place to get a lot of management, leadership, and project experience in a short time frame. However, you will have to work hard to find the right work/life balance to make it sustainable in the long-term.

Pros

Few good projects
Deloitte name

Cons

Leadership is selfish - get the job done and don't bother me attitude

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

Valuable work experience gaining new skills and exposure to senior management.

Cons

The concept of worklife balance doesn't exist.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to create and support learning and training opportunities for your staff members as well.

Pros

Conscious effort by management to make sure the work life balance was fair

Cons

Project work left too little time to perform required internal assignments

Pros

You want to be the best, this company provides you with those tools.

Cons

A lot of travel and time spent away from home.

Advice to Senior Management

Deloitte is well run company who listens to it's employees in an ever changing enviornment.

Pros

Clean, well lit workplace, indoor parking garage, vending machines work fairly reliably, plenty of office supplies available

Cons

Mind-numbing, ethically bankrupt culture which treats individuals as widgets in process. Plenty of syrupy talk and layer upon layer of strawberry icing covers the rotting carcass as it careens into a nebulous future.

Advice to Senior Management

Eradicate the Anderson-mafia cancer that is limiting the blood supply and the flow of oxygen to the organization's brain

Pros

Lots of experience and learning opportunities right out of college
Work with very smart people
Good salary, especially for fresh graduate
Often gain exposure to many different industries and projects early in career
Some amazing people to work with and learn from

Cons

Expected to work long hours, sometimes just for appearances to client or senior management
Expected to travel 4 days every week
Sometimes challenging to take time off
Expected to do extra "firm activities" in addition to client service hours

Advice to Senior Management

Limit the number of hours devoted to additional firm activities
Allow people the opportunity to move around more between projects