Pros

- Opportunity to intern abroad
- Really nice people (I loved my direct managers)
- Easy to take vacation

Cons

- High turnover
- Confusion over what to do at times
- Heard rumblings from full-time employees who were upset with having more work piled on them by partners...(partners get a share of those fees, employees work tons of hours and get paid less than American counterparts)

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and focus more on what's best for keeping them around instead of heading out at 5 pm and piling more work so you can get rich off the fees

Pros

looks great on your resume
great for junior employees

Cons

Annual review process is very lengthy and the monetary increase is a joke
Management is oblivious to problems
Not good for people who want to work in C&A field
If you do not like your engagement, too bad!! YOU ARE STUCK!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to what your employees have to say, take an active role in their careers

Pros

- diverse project load
- opportunity to develop business & technical skills
- generally useful performance review process
- great benefits
- great opportunity to build network

Cons

- client work always comes first (often at the expense of your own professional development, e.g. training, learning & growth, etc)
- long hours
- political

Advice to Senior Management

- listen to your staff - make an effort to hear them out and encourage upper feedback
- focus more on talent retention

Pros

The people are extremely friendly and intelligent, the work is challenging and rewarding, and if you are willing to work very hard you can be very successful.

Cons

There are times when you will have to work many more hours than you would like, initially the compensation is not in line with the level of effort and competency required.

Advice to Senior Management

If you show more appreciation (monetary and non-monetary) for your junior and senior level associates, you will experience less turnover and more loyalty.

Pros

I had a job
my last day is/was soon

Cons

no diversity
you have to attend happy hour at least 2 times a week to get noticed
your project depends on your security clearance level, not your skillset

Advice to Senior Management

Get some diversity at the top and stop recruiting these silly out of college kids with tattos everywhere to become managers

Pros

Have some flexibility in hours, but it's at the cost of giving up personal life. Tons of resources to use and learn from to help you advance your career and knowledge.

Cons

You realize the people that get out on time have learned to off-load as much work as possible to other people. The reward, if your lucky, is almost never worth the extra effort of taking on additional work and the personal time sacrificed. Good performance only gets you so far, therefore you have to make sure you meet the "right" people in order to get a good raise at year-end.

The fact that you can only get promoted at year-end is ridiculous. HR has no clue what the client service people do. Their role is merely to pay you as little as possible to keep you happy enough. If they allowed for promotions to take place at any time, then it will motivate employees to work harder for them. It's tough telling an associate that hey, you got hired on such and such date, therefore it's basically impossible for you to get promoted even if you're the best performer ever. I mean really?!!

Advice to Senior Management

Reward your outstanding performers and stop being so stingy. We can see straight through your so-called "straight talk" sessions when you talk about the economy b/c all you ever talk about is top-line attrition, but HELLO, you've axed a ton of employees which is your COGS. Therefore, don't tell me about top-line attrition (revenue), tell me how much profits have changed and then, THEN, I'll be satisfied (or very dissatisfied b/c it's obvious why they haven't shared this) that my pathetic raise, if you got one btw, is in line. Do a better job at balancing work-loads among your employees. Very frustrating to see the same employees leave at 5:00 and then like i said, to not be rewarded for the extra effort you put in.

Promote employees at any time. When someone is ready for a new role, then promote them. It's not a rocket science concept.

"If you treat your goof-offs the same as your stars, before you know it you're going to be left with more goof-offs then stars." - Unknown. I've witnessed a handful of outstanding co-workers leave the company because of this simple mantra.

Pros

Probably the best thing about Deloitte is the smart and talented people you get to work with on a day-to-day basis. The experiences you gain also benefit you in your later career, but are dependent on the projects that you are staffed on. Coming in as a junior resources allows you to try different aspects of consulting - something that you might not have been able to at another company.

Cons

Working at Deloitte is always about building your "brand" and constantly promoting yourself. As people are probably well aware, while the firm tries to promote the never-achieving "work-life-balance", I have yet to meet someone who has made it work. As part of building your brand, extra work is required to be spent outside of normal project work to help out on proposals, building firm eminence, contributing to the firm. Unfortunately, it's hard to get noticed, respected, and rewarded (i.e. financially, recognized), unless you participate in these extra activities.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize those who deliver high quality of work as much as those who sell the work.

Pros

Great training program, working with very smart people, diversity, good benefits

Cons

Long hours, office politics, unpredictable hours, travel

Advice to Senior Management

Understand that we have lives too

Pros

there is lots of travel, which is good if you want to travel around a lot, good pay, great benefits, great culture, fast paced atmosphere that actually challenges you.

Cons

The work life balance of my job is not that great. It is very much working 4 days per week at the client site, which doesn't leave much time for personal life.

Advice to Senior Management

you are doing a great job, but i'm not sure how leadership actually have personal lives. Even partners do much more work than they would be with children and wives.

Pros

Lots of time off, although it's hard to take it.
Opportunities to work globally.
Working with top companies.
Working on a lot of different important initiatives.

Cons

They talk a lot about work-life balance, but 60 hours a week is a minimum.
They talk about advancing women but most senior leaders are men and it seems like most of the women who have been promoted had a relationship with a senior partner.
There are no mandated 360 evaluations for managers so they are not evaluated on how well they manage, but how well they kiss up to their managers.
It's a partnership, so partners are treating like gods, and everyone else is supposed to just support them without challenging them.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people. Communications is all about what senior leaders say to the underlings, but you need to fine out what's driving us crazy.