Deloitte Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

-DT was a great place to start off my careers. I learnt a lot, and am thankful to my team and leadership for the experiences.
-Decent pay and benefits
-Great team structure in the past- over the last 2 yrs it has all become bureaucratic and complicated

Cons

- Expect to travel a lot, depending on what clients you are on
-Evaluation and salary increase system is flawed. It keeps getting worse, and there is too much emphasis on 60+hr weeks during busy season, and utilization end of year. All that is a big waste of time

Pros

Very good salary, benefits package, etc. Comes at a price

Cons

Managers & above sacrifice everything for the client. There is no family life, balance or reward when a project is mid to end. Then, managers typically realize the budget is not meeting the SOW that was signed, so your hours get cut and, although very much against Deloitte policy, you end up eating hours which kills you at review time, because all you are judged on are your billable hours. Some think it is nice being on the beach, but again, kills you in the end. I have been wearing shorts and no shoes for weeks making 80+ a year, but feel like crap when the day is done

Advice to Senior Management

Don't waste the employees time revising internal resumes and sucking up to managers for project opportunities. Line your people up based on skill sets and available opportunities. Me on an IT project? In fact, 2 of my first 3 projects? REALLY???? I am a freakin biologist! What a waste of everybody's time and money

Pros

It's a firm do not treat you as a commodity.

Cons

You can easily get lost in the midst of the crowd.

Pros

Good fun people to work with; collegiate atmosphere.

Lots of networking sessions. Some really good projects out there. Good 401K matching, vacation.

Cons

Lick A$$es, even if good projects are available they look for perfect fit. Travel gets exhausting (maybe it's just me), work life balance does not exist....it's only work and not like you are rewarded very well for working so hard.

An average rating is no average rating..you are required to work like a Donkey. A 2 or 1 (superstar) requires a lot of client work and assisting with firm activities like proposal development or community actitivites..and 100-200 hours of it. You tell me...where's the life part in work life balance after all this?

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate good work and inculcate work life balance. Pay more.

Pros

Good place to start your career.

Cons

Some bad projects/ few international assignments

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to the needs of your internal stakeholders

Pros

Deloitte hires talented people who are motivated, problem solvers, "out of the box " thinkers , team players and Leaders!!!

Cons

The only downside I see is the extensive travel,

Advice to Senior Management

We need to get better on more virtual project execution.

Pros

Incredible grow and learning opportunities. Benefit packages cannot be topped. Lots of vacation time. I also got a 6 month maternity. They were very supportive of my career.

Cons

Traveling is the pits. Management is obsessed with PowerPoint. Hours can be very long.

Advice to Senior Management

Deloitte is going in the right direction. Their commitment to work-life balance is admirable, but the nature of the business is that in the end, you do whatever it takes for the client, often at personal expense.

Pros

- They pay you and are willing to send you off to another state for training.

Cons

- Staffing process is broken. Period. Your resources (buddy and counselor) are most likely too busy to help. Your HR staffing manager is too incompetent to understand your skill set and will forward your resume to some projects that are complete mismatch. You can be on the bench for 2-3 months or more if you're a new hire. Project teams only want Deloitte veterans instead of new hires (yes, I was told this as a reason the project teams rejected me even though my skills and background fit the profiles perfectly).

- Extremely unwelcoming culture for new comers. It could be due to the consulting nature of the firm. Nobody would be in the office except Fridays. After the 2-day orientation you'll be on your own, from booking/checking-in/locating your desk, meeting people, to finding work to do. You'll most likely be sitting in your cubicle all alone with nobody to talk to. You'll need to email/im/call strangers locating in some random remote area to 'put yourself out there', who half the time don't respond to you because they're too busy with their projects. If you have any question, there's no human being who'll explain how to do things to you because everyone is too busy and they'll only tell you to do a search on DeloitteNet.

- Extremely disorganized. Since there's really no human being explaining how to do things, you'll need to find information on your own. Unfortunately there are 1000+ different documents in different formats (web, excel, word doc, ppt, etc) explaining how to do the same thing in different ways, and some even in contradicting manner.

- Online training classes are laughable. They might look like they have a nice great portfolio of online training classes, but their materials and presentations are horrible. Even the compliance training classes are plain ridiculously time-consuming with some badly graphic 'avatars' explaining the rules.

- Pay is low if you're in FSI. You can score a much better package if you are with a bank instead. Lots of fine prints in the compensation package that weren't told up front. For example, pension and 401K company match will only start after working a full year with the firm.

- Technical practice is questionable. As a consultant in the technology division, I raise my eyebrows when the project teams told me they don't have time to do testing, or when they use technical terms incorrectly in a sentence.

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize your new hires more effectively by staffing them onto projects that match their skill set/background/career goals. Don't hire them if they are not a match.

Pros

- Work Environment: Fun, dynamic place to work with a large number of young exciting professionals.
- People: As I said before, other employees were great and easy to relate to. Everyone works hard but likes to have fun.
- Schedule: I liked the consulting schedule. I was just an intern so I didn't get to fully live the consultant lifestyle but it looked great. Travel, work hard, reap benefits.

Cons

- Business: It's a business firm, not a technology firm. Lots of the tech knowledge I learned at Engineering school goes out the window and its a much higher view on technology. Definitely no coding ( which in my mind is a Pro) or technical terms but it's beneficial to know requirements, limitations, etc..
- Corporate: It's a big company. Hard to get things you need to get your job done. Processes and procedures take a while, but hey, that's what you get with big companies.
- Perfectionists: I saw managers complain about words not aligned correctly on a PowerPoint slide. Literally, PIXELS were off and they were not pleased. To give them the benefit of the doubt they would be selling million dollar projects, but it's annoying that you spend most your time formatting slides rather than creatively deciding what should be included in presentations.

Advice to Senior Management

I was just there for the summer but the thing that bothered me is that there wasn't much communication between the Senior Manager and the consultants about the selling. Managers would go try to sell for more work but no one would have an idea until they realized they needed to work on something else. Managers, people under you like to have an idea what's going on, so let them know. This may of been a specific instance but it's the main thing I saw.

Pros

- Ability and resources available to learn new skills
- Experience learned

Cons

- Even though you might make a slightly higher pay, it isn't worth it when you realize how many hours you have to put in compared to your compensation(no benefits for overtime)
- You have to give up your life entirely, definitely not for people who are family oriented
- Bureaucratic and office politics/biases play a role in your success
- Expected to give up everything for Deloitte(cancel planned vacations, work late nights, work countless weekends, etc...)
- Deloitte will not take employees into consideration when scheduling hours, they only care about getting it done for the clients(which means long nights, and multiple weekends of work for you)
- Little bonus or incentives given
- Working so many hours prevents you from having a real social life(Deloitte will try to convince you that working at Deloitte IS your social life)
- So many requirements/goals to fulfill that you won't have time to do it at all.

Overall, I would recommend everyone to stay away from Deloitte, they do not give value to their employees, especially those first starting out. There is no consideration or respect for their personal time.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to fix how you treat employees asap. More and more people are leaving Deloitte because the work environment is cut-throat and hostile. It is not an environment which is fostering a love for the job. I see a sharp decline in Deloitte's success in the coming future if they continue to overwork their employees.