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Career Opportunities
3.8
Communication
3.7
Compensation & Benefits
3.5
Employee Morale
3.8
Recognition & Feedback
3.4
Senior Leadership
3.5
Work/Life Balance
3.5
Fairness & Respect
3.3
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Aug 21, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
1.5
Communication
2.0
Compensation & Benefits
1.0
Employee Morale
1.5
Recognition & Feedback
1.0
Senior Leadership
2.0
Work/Life Balance
2.5
Fairness & Respect
1.0
2 of 2 people found this helpful
Pros
Big4 experience is a plus on your CV. There is some good people there that you can learn a lot from. Fun way to start your career if you are ready to put down the hours.
Cons
Lack of respect for lower level employees. Promotions and pay rises not linked to competence or performance. Office politics and your ability to align yourself with the right people is the only thing that will drive your career forward here. There is a significant gap between what senior management says and how strategy is implemented by the lower levels of management. By promoting based on office politics rather than ability there are some truly horrible managers / directors / partners with social skills that makes you wonder if they shouldn't really be committed to an institution.
Advice to Senior Management
You need to start focusing on actual performance and skills and not soley rely on office politics and favoritism for promotions. This is totally undermining the quality of the people in the organization.
Aug 20, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
3.5
Communication
2.0
Compensation & Benefits
2.5
Employee Morale
2.0
Recognition & Feedback
1.0
Senior Leadership
2.5
Work/Life Balance
1.0
Fairness & Respect
1.0
3 of 4 people found this helpful
Pros
recognized as one of the big 4 accounting firms in the world.
Cons
they work you long hours, don't care about you, about half of the managers are not very intelligent.
Advice to Senior Management
better day to day lifestyle. we have one event (xmas party) that you can invite your significant other to. lame! one other thing. after filing a long and grueling 10k, most teams have a celebration dinner. due to all kinds of problems with the CLIENT, not the team, the team worked a ton of OT... only to be told that we went over the intial budget so we couldn't afford to have a dinner. to me that just screams cheapness. it costs like $50/pp for a nice nice dinner. the amount is miniscule compared to the fees brought in for a public company. it's like saying "you worked too hard so you can't be rewarded." WTF? also i once got a gift of an ipod shuffle. but when i looked closer, it was used and had no headphones. then on my next paycheck, they taxed me on a $100 as a "bonus." what the hell?? a brand new shuffle is like $70, and i don't really want the shuffle if i'm going to be taxed on it. people steal the hole punch off the copy machine. when i told facilities, they got all mad and told me to place an order for a hole punch. i told them i didnt need my own personal hole punch, but i just wanted one to be there on the copy machine. they rolled their eyes and a few days later a hole punch appeared in my mail box, just for me. exactly what i need to carry around when i'm on 100% travel. ghetto.
Sep 6, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
3.5
Communication
3.0
Compensation & Benefits
2.5
Employee Morale
3.0
Recognition & Feedback
1.5
Senior Leadership
3.5
Work/Life Balance
3.0
Fairness & Respect
2.0
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
Big name on resume; Pay for CPA license; exposure to Fortune 500 companies; almost one month of paid time off
Cons
The hours during busy season are killer; Even during the non normal busy season, which is January through March and April, you may end up working a ton of overtime. The salary and compensation package, ie benefits, perks, etc, do not match up to the hours and type of work performed. The communication of national office, with both implementing new directives and taking care of employees, is very out of touch with reality.
Advice to Senior Management
Senior management should do a better job of building employee morale. There should be more employee recognition, ie compensation, to the parties that do the actual bulk of the work, which are the seniors.
Sep 5, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
3.5
Communication
3.0
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Employee Morale
3.0
Recognition & Feedback
1.5
Senior Leadership
2.5
Work/Life Balance
3.0
Fairness & Respect
1.5
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
Deloitte is a good company to start a career and learn professional knowledge much faster than in average companies. The firm has knowledge sharing database, required trainings, and most importantly vast amount of opportunities for employees to work under real-world cases. To that extent, Deloitte is a good place to work
Cons
Deloitte's hierarchy structure is based on a "Class" concept. People joining in the same year are called the same “class”. Due to this philosophy, no stand-out is truly encouraged. On one hand, slackers will be tossed out for sure. On the other hand, it is sorry for those who can pick up more work and do the work more efficiently than others. In other words, this is not a system that encourages out-performers. As a matter of fact, the firm expects some people to leave and become corporate leaders in the future, for the sake of business development.
Advice to Senior Management
Never over-estimate what leadership can do and never under-estimate what an associate can accomplish.
Sep 4, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
4.0
Communication
4.0
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Employee Morale
4.0
Recognition & Feedback
4.5
Senior Leadership
4.0
Work/Life Balance
4.0
Fairness & Respect
4.0
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
The best thing about working at Deloitte is the opportunity is work with multiple clients. Instead of being stuck in a single job doing a single task, you have the chance to change your role with each project. At Deloitte your skillset and experience will grow much faster then if you worked in industry. With work being project based, chances are you will be less bored because of the changing environment. Another great thing about Deloitte is that you get to see and experience the different ways that companies work. Once you leave Deloitte, you can take those experiences with you to whatever company you work with and quickly adapt to the situation.
Cons
The major downsides at Deloitte are the poor pay and the workaholic culture. When you join Deloitte, don't except to be the best paid person amongst your group of friends. It's not that the pay is bad, it's just average. Deloitte likes to keep things cheap and have the carrot dangling in front of you so that you are always close to grasping it but not quite there. Things such as raises can seem rather arbitrary. Some people will get huge raises for no real apparent reason while others will get little just because of some external reason. People at Deloitte (and probably most consulting firms) will work you do death if you give them the opportunity. So you definitely need to have a strong backbone and the willingness to sometimes say no. Otherwise the work will never end.
Advice to Senior Management
The biggest advice I would give to Senior Management is to not be so cheap. The firm has a tendency to try and keep all the costs so low because it is a partnership. The firm spending money equals actual individual owners spending money. The firm doesn't need to lavish their employees but they do need to do a better job at making people feel valued.
Sep 4, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
3.0
Communication
4.0
Compensation & Benefits
4.0
Employee Morale
4.0
Recognition & Feedback
4.0
Senior Leadership
4.0
Work/Life Balance
5.0
Fairness & Respect
4.0
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
As someone who has been with Deloitte for over 13 years, I have to say the best thing about it are the people. Top to bottom, Deloitte is blessed with some amazing and fun professionals and partners. The firm is generous on the time off they give us - and the expectation we'll take that time. They are also very flexible on the work/life front. We have staff spread all over the country and some work 100 percent from home. Very few workplaces encourage that. Deloitte is the exception.
Cons
Sad to say, but the people and politics. Just as we're stocked with great people, we also have some snakes. Some people clearly are in their jobs for reasons other than competence. But it's still a much lower number than anywhere I've ever worked. Another problem is how the businesses operate. Some silos are very difficult to crack - and our systems could use some serious overhauling.
Advice to Senior Management
Morale is very bad right now - not sure what you can do. The highest performers are great but you're forgetting the 80 percent of the remaining people.
Sep 4, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
4.0
Communication
4.0
Compensation & Benefits
4.0
Employee Morale
4.0
Recognition & Feedback
4.0
Senior Leadership
4.0
Work/Life Balance
4.0
Fairness & Respect
4.0
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
Opportunities to advance, lots of young people in junior ranks which can be a fun, energized environment
Cons
Can be a big company with the feeling of being a cog in the wheel and that nobody cares about you, other than working you hard
Advice to Senior Management
lighten up and have fun, it's just work and we all have lives to go to at the end of the day, also if turnover is a problem you might want to look into the factors that are making people leave after a couple of years. Nobody should burn out in their mid twenties, but I understand the model. The lower level people make the ship float because of their willingness to work hard for not great/but not poor money
Sep 4, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
4.0
Communication
4.5
Compensation & Benefits
3.0
Employee Morale
5.0
Recognition & Feedback
2.5
Senior Leadership
3.5
Work/Life Balance
5.0
Fairness & Respect
3.5
0 of 0 people found this helpful
Pros
They actually understand the meaning of the work-life balance. Taking time off for appointments, important occasions etc. is not a problem. Most areas offer a decent training programme, allowing employees to attain CIMA or ACA whilst working for the firm, with paid time off.
Cons
The rewards are not sufficient for junior staff. Decent salaries only really materialise much higher up the firm. In audit, there is a bottom up approach to much of the work. Long hours are expected doing menial tasks.
Advice to Senior Management
They should spend more time boosting employee morale, competitiveness and motivation. They should build more of an entrepeneurial mindset for employees.
Aug 25, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
2.5
Communication
2.0
Compensation & Benefits
2.0
Employee Morale
1.5
Recognition & Feedback
4.0
Senior Leadership
2.5
Work/Life Balance
1.0
Fairness & Respect
1.0
1 of 1 people found this helpful
Pros
Looks good on CV and salary is good compared with other accountancy programmes.
Working out at clients (away from the office).
Cons
Overtime is expected as given, irrespective of commitments outside of work whether it be study, exams, or surprising to many senior staff....a social life.
Alot of travel and away jobs, on average 10 days a month.
Within the office environment people are rude and ignorant and many will not say 'hello' as you walk by. Many people do not possess social skills especially senior management.
Advice to Senior Management
Respect lower grades of staff and appreciate hard work and good work. Dont take overtime as given without reimbursing their efforts.
The cut throat exam policy means you are playing with people's careers. Give the support and mentoring that you market in your graduate brochure!
Aug 24, 2008
Details
Career Opportunities
1.0
Communication
1.0
Compensation & Benefits
3.5
Employee Morale
1.0
Recognition & Feedback
1.0
Senior Leadership
1.0
Work/Life Balance
4.0
Fairness & Respect
1.0
1 of 1 people found this helpful
Pros
It's a Big 4, looks great on a resume- that's about it!
Cons
The company is way too beaurocratic. New hires beware, the people here will stab you in the back any chance
they get. Low on the ethics scale. The management at Deloitte lacks intelligence. Absolutely the worst experience of my career.
I would not recommend this company to anyone, the people here are miserable and they will make your life miserable!
Advice to Senior Management
Ethics?? Practice what you preach!! Start hiring professionals with integrity.
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