Deloitte Reviews in Detroit, MI Area

Pros

The pay and benefits thats about it.

Cons

Deloitte IT is process oriented to a fault. New technologies or methodologies almost never get implemented. Deloitte IT is great for people who want to use 5 year old technologies and do the same thing day after day. It is not a good place for individuals who want to grow their skillset or keep it current.

Advice to Senior Management

Deloitte's IT department needs people that understand current technology and methodologies - not those from a decade ago.

Pros

The experience gained, decent pay, career accelerator

Cons

Top heavy, wants to be top tier firm but cannot follow up with action

Advice to Senior Management

Do the right thing in the downturn

Pros

Logical and objective performance evaluation help to understand the exact expectations of the firm.
In addition, Deloitte has the opportunity to hire the best and the brightest, and it is a pleasure to work with that kind of people. The drive and intelligence of the employees throughout the Consulting organization is amazing.
Deloitte is an amazing place in terms of communication from the top. Employees are constantly informed in detail about what is going on.
Lastly, Deloitte is trying hard to balance bottom-line performance with other elements, such as training, community involvement, and professional growth.
In my 30+ years of experience in 16 different companies, Deloitte is head and shoulders above any other company I have seen.

Cons

The personal focus on Utilization % gives me sometimes headaches, because there is not much I can do (as a mid-level Manager/Lead) to influence this number.
The travel requirements of the job (typically 100%) are not for everybody.

Advice to Senior Management

Great job of leading and communicating; continue the way Deloitte is treating its employees.

Pros

Deloitte is a great place to start a career and the name is highly recognized. Be ready for lots of time off-site and more hours than smaller firms. You will be exposed to many large clients with complex business problems so it is a great learning experience. There is lots of employee turnover and many people don't stick around past three to five years.

Cons

There are many layers of management, so be prepared to be the lowest person on the totem pole for quite some time. Pay is good, but probably will not attract graduates from top business schools. Benefits are average and there are really no perks to be had.

Advice to Senior Management

Not applicable

Pros

Deloitte is uniquely positioned in the marketplace as the only Firm/Company that can bring the combined services of Consulting, Tax, Audit and many other services to clients (this is exciting and sweet spot of Deloitte innovation).
Great place to start for young people or newly minted MBAs.
Deloitte works hard to bring in fresh talent and pays them well.
Many interesting people.
Good brand recognition in employment marketplace.

Cons

For experienced professionals and consultants:
Mix of competence across the organization at all levels (some people are very good, some experienced people are mediocre or poor, many people have one dimensional skills, and there are alot of ambitious people with new MBAs with work little experience)
Experienced professionals will likely have a harder time.
Large amount of politics and back talking (probably more than other consulting firms).
For some parts of consulting, if you are not in New York or a select few major offices, your opportunities will be more limited.
Deloitte is less global in coordinating resources and information sharing than one would expect on the Consulting side.
There is less creativity than one would expect at manager levels and above.
Can be difficult to actually take all of your vacation (Paid Time Off).
Information exchange is lackluster.

Advice to Senior Management

Level set new MBAs on what work is like.
Deloitte Consulting stresses its strategic abilities to recruits and to its people too much (which is actually a small part of its consulting buisness) and should emphasize operations and operational strategy more.
Stronger integration of Strategy and Operations, Human Capital, and Technology practices to the marketplace.

Pros

Good for young employees as we travel a lot. Job is in a prestigious industry and the Deloitte name carries good recognition.

Cons

Constant travel, being away from home is often difficult, especially if you have a family. There are often long hours, and we have a minimum number of hours that we are expected to bill for each week.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the mid-year and year-end review processes more open and less subjective. If you are going to lay people off, tell us why it's happening and actually own up to your mistakes in hiring people for whom you cannot sell work. If we are going to take the fall for your mistakes, at least be honest with us.

Pros

Good benefits - health insurance with no deductible, dental and vision plans, legal plan, Nice PTO - 25 days off a year plus 10 holidays, flexbile work arrangement - possibility of working from home, telecommuting, compressed work week, part time, good training programs and sessions held at the best hotels around the United Sates,

Cons

low salary considering the amount of hours worked and the time spent studying for CPA Exam, high competition, often time people are not friendly - self centered and focused on their own careers, evaluation process not very clear, favoritism, expectations to be available even during your PTO time.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication between management and staff employees, treat people as individauls and not as a statistic

Pros

Young people especially get a good experience and variety of work early on in their careers.
The quality of your colleagues is very high - it's a pleasure to work with great people who are also very talented

Cons

Must be your own cheerleader to get ahead - the company is too big to get noticed unless you point it out to the right people
Must love travel

Advice to Senior Management

Try to reset the standard that consultants must be onsite most of the time-I would work for Deloitte again if the travel wasn't so intensive

Pros

Deloitte contains locations around the world that contain some of the best and brightest employees there are. The work is very challeging but also very rewarding. Compensation is good and it has some of the best employee programs that I've ever seen. Training is something that upper management strongly encourages and is very supportive of. I can honestly say that I enjoy my job.

Cons

Longer hours (which I think is a given in today's workplace), some travel and the lack of a robust health benefit package. Health benefits are strong in some areas but are costly or lack basic coverage in others.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve health benefits, continue to grow the organization and develop talent within.

Pros

Flexibility, significant advancement opportunities, and the people. In a service-oriented business, it's the people that make the difference. You have to find the right fit for yourself, and the people of Deloitte are what makes it the right fit. It can be a challenge to recognize and make use of the flexibility that this job offers, and it does increase significantly over time (just as your responsibilities also increase), but in my opinion, it can't be beat in private industry.

Cons

Long hours and difficult to manage ever-changing client expectations. Our clients are some of the biggest in the world, and they sometimes make challenging demands on our people. Sometimes those demands are not as inflexible as they might seem, but concern over perception often trumps reality and causes unnecessary stress in the work environment. Also, some local leadership do not necessarily support national and global initiatives to the degree that they should due to local pressures in addressing local client needs. This causes a significant disconnect between messages delivered nationally and globally and the local reality.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the fantastic national and global initiatives, but find a way to monitor and correct problems in local leadership support for those initiatives.