Deloitte Reviews

Pros

Diverse and young culture makes it a place that people would gladly work at during vacationer, graduate and lateral hires.

Cons

Seems to not compensate staff at market rates, performance bonus is minimal

Advice to Senior Management

Concentrate on people first before growth strategy and expansion

Pros

Very understanding partner and managers.
Able to record overbudget hours - within 1 year I have 30 days of allowed absence including yearly absence.
Friendly enlivenment in regards to age range. (23-32)
Nourishing in the means of knowledge.
Flexible upper management

Cons

Project based work hours thus most of the time 50+ work hours weekly.
Low salaries compared to similar jobs.
Working with different managers may cause standardization problems in the means of work quality.
No creativity. Therefore after certain number of projects learning curve becomes more linear, making job experience more stagnant.
Most important attribute is endurance. Not really a challenging job and again over time becomes dissatisfying.

Pros

Good exposure to many different areas of tax
Access to resources across the country
Abiltiy to move around either locations or departments if desired

Cons

Long hours
Expectation of not take PTO

Advice to Senior Management

Better work-life balance needed. Lots of people have been leaving for more money and less hours elsewhere

Pros

The people are great, ability to challenge yourself with new projects was also really good, benefits are the best I've gotten in my career.

Cons

Politics and back stabbing
Over worked and under appreciated

Advice to Senior Management

Realize you have some great people working for you, acknowledge them and be thankful

Pros

Work Hours and schedules are flexible

Cons

BAd qork Quality. Is a dignified back office here in India

Advice to Senior Management

Choose your people wisely and manage human capital.

Pros

wonderful place to work! great work ethic

Cons

have to have a mentor and someone who will look out for you...else, very tough!

Advice to Senior Management

great place, great client ethic.

Pros

There is an International environment

Cons

To fill every day time sheet, and workload is not well spread

Pros

- Fantastic Learning and Development program
- On leading edge of technology for such a large firm
- Leadership takes feedback and integrates employee suggestions
- Organization fosters an environment of professional development
- Great internal flexibility to move to other departments within the firm

Cons

- Choose the personality of your boss wisely - they will affect the rest of your career
- Compensation varied wildly from year to year
- Regardless of performance, you will have to wait in line for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

See the cons above

Pros

Great for the resume and as a place to jump off to other opportunities. Lots of classes and resources made available to employees to educate themselves.

Cons

Lot of fake emphasis on work/life balance. If you ask a question of 4 people you get 3 1/2 different answers.

Advice to Senior Management

Company needs an HR department and stated policy on a manner of things so employees know what to do to get ahead.

Pros

-Fair to good compensation and benefits (Sabattical was a nice recent add)
-People and collegial culture bar-none make an excellent work environment
-Challenging and rewarding work
-Travel perks on par with industry
-Clear career path(s) exists
-Opportunities to move around
-World class support structure for firm tools, methodologies, and knowledge base

Cons

-Although work-life balance and the corporate lattice/MCC are good concepts, at the end of the day that's what they are: concepts and theory. Employees give their lives up for their clients/projects and the firm and if you don't then natural selection occurs and you will be viewed as the weak link and be eventually weeded out.
-Expense policy on meals is subpar compared to industry. (Deloitte uses actuals vs other companies follow state laws on per diem)
-Constant travels wears on the personal life
-Firm culture creates cliques and factions of partners/sr mgrs that watch over their inner circles and protect only themselves

Advice to Senior Management

Although at the end of the day, the firm is a great place to work, however there is the word "cult" in culture. The factions/cliques that exist are the ones who have control and are exclusionary unless you prove you are "one of them" by giving up your life to become a partner/director. This strategy is not going to be sustainable with the next generation of the workforce.