Deloitte Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

The company is very committed to its employees. Interns are treated just like full-time staff and given plenty of opportunities.

Cons

Deloitte is a big company and as an intern you are competing against 20-plus other qualified candidates for a full time position.

Pros

Culture, People, reputation, ethicx, training

Cons

too large, no longer a true sense of partnership

Advice to Senior Management

keep taking care of your intelectual assets (people)

Pros

Methodologies: Methodologies specific to technologies and domains.
Organized and professional: Good hiring process and initial seminars to introduce to the firm. DNet (internal website) has lot of information that helps regarding processes and procedures and a job aid.
Good Salary: This is my second of the big consulting companies and Deloitte pays well in comparison to its competitors.
Own your career: Not much of intervention from anyone till your evals.
Ingrainded functional vertical streams lead to specialized career.

Cons

Work-life balance. Have heard work hours between 50-65 per week
Ingrainded functional vertical streams may pose issues for some.
Tough for some experienced hires Managers to find their initial projects.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a need to establish programs or processes that can help augment new hires in the firm beyond the buddy system and the CC as they may not be very effective.

Pros

- You work with the best;
- Privately held means profit sharing for all;
- Strongh emphasis on networking results in "small company" family-style relationships with upper management.

Cons

- Expected extra-curricular activities are burdening on your personal time.
- MCC profile seems to play little effect as to expected commitment.
- Strange multi-tiered performance review system with little clarity, seemingly relying on strength of network / relationships more so than on merit.

Advice to Senior Management

- 360 Reviews shoudl be mandatory for all projects and relationships at Deloitte. Many times, new Managers are hired into the firm that are not apt for the role, making it difficult for those subordinate to them as these managers adjust.
- Also, the performance review system needs a serious overhaul. Adding additional forms isn't an overhaul, but just more "red tape."

Pros

Training, peers at a good level.

Cons

Low pay and too much overtime, turnover make work so hard.

Advice to Senior Management

good old boy strategy

Pros

Salaries for consultants & sr. consultants exceeds other comparable companies and position. There is a very clear career path that is outlined. Pretty good internal knowledge transfer and content repository. Positive work environment and generally good local office support and involvement.

Cons

In many cases, clearly inexperienced PMs or workstream leads work you like slaves. 7:00am conference calls on a Sunday morning is a bit ridiculous. There is wayyyyy too much emphasis on local office extracurricular activities. Learn how to sign business. ...way too quick to lay off. Do as you say and not as you do--i.e., your ethics policies...don't mislead your prospective clients on the qualifications of your project resources, or ask your staff to do the same. Watch for 'cliqueness' and pitfalls in this highly 'bubba'-oriented networking environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Give equal credibility to your qualified industry hires, rather than relying on engagement leadership coming solely from those directly out of school & grown from within. Allow for 360 feedback. Show less emphasis on storyboards and more on delivering concrete deliverables to the client. Look for other skills and alternative ways to use your consulting talent on hte bench, rather than limiting them to one service line and domain, and thereby decreasing their value (and ultimately utilization), to the firm.

Pros

Great opportunites to grow, succeed, flexibility

Cons

Opportunites are sometimes limited and repetetive.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your staff more

Pros

Good employee benefits and large clientel based

Cons

you would always be expected to work at least put +40 weekly chargeable hrs

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work all the time

Pros

- Flexibility, Time off, Exposure to multiple projects in multiple industries.
- Good Resume booster
- Highly collaborative environment

Cons

- Low pay compared to competitors
- Highly political
- Promotion are based on who you know

Advice to Senior Management

Provide people with the opportunity to move up and reward them accordingly for their hard work. Stop being so stingy with the money and pay people fairly. The 401(k) is a joke compared to other companies. Salaries are definitely not reflective of the corporate image Deloitte sells to there clients. Recent move has been focused on more offshoring which is deterring from the quality of work produced to clients.

Pros

Reputation. Good place to launch career and move on to something better. Typically coworkers are bright and have great personalities.

Cons

Places that have to use the phrase "work life balance" usually have none.
A sink or swim mentality
Pay per hour sucks.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the staff or managers who are jerks. This is too intense and team oriented of a workplace for us to be able to work with genuine a-holes. Why tolerate them? You lose good decent human beings when you retain jerks.