Deloitte Reviews

Pros

-People who care about you and your development; with both hard and soft skills.
-Hands-on experience, online training, and vendor training for some of the hottest technologies are readily available.
-Simply the best in terms of talent...you're working with the best and brightest in the workforce.
-Great client exposure.
-Salary is extremely competitive.
-Benefits are extremely competitive.
-Great resume-booster.
-This place is the embodiment of capitalism. All about competition. The slackers and those who don't add value stick out like a sore thumb. And the firm is the better for it. When everyone you work with is motivated to do a great job on everything they touch, things get done. They get done well and done quickly.

Cons

-90% of your satisfaction with the firm depends on your project (e.g. if project is understaffed or poorly-managed, you can be stuck in a rough spot for several months...granted you can always add value by performing at a high level in your role, success rarely hinges on a single analyst's ability to add value).

-Continuing education classes, compliance training, practice development activities, firm activities, Impact Day, recruiting, all-hands events, service line meetings, Deloitte holidays, government holidays, all count against your utilization. Utilization refers to your requirement to spend 95% of the 2080 hours in the year (52 weeks * 40 hours/week) on client work, which doesn't include any of the things listed above. Usually everything totals to anywhere between 50 and 70 hours per week of work, and the non-client work actually ends up forcibly distracting you from your client work, which is supposed to be a priority.

-Retirement benefits are practically non-existent...vesting and accrual start around year 3, with puny matching contributions.

Advice to Senior Management

You're bringing in a bunch of analysts who have proven they're bright and will work their butts off to do a great job. When you throw a bunch of competing priorities at them though, without counseling them on how to balance client work with all of their other responsibilities and requirements, some quality people can get burned-out. Instead of leaving them to figure it out, provide more structure to the firm activity and practice development components.

Pros

Excellent benefits
Fun coworkers
Very nice office in Rosslyn for the Federal Practice

Cons

Federal practice has grown very large since acquiring Bearing Point
Learning portal is cumbersome

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more visibility into salary decisions

Pros

pretty high salary and impressive experience

Cons

high pressure and heavy work tasks

Pros

The people at Deloitte make it what it is. Though there are some bad seeds that make it through the cracks the people are amazing. Work life balance is encouraged.

Cons

HARD WORK, Long hours and a requirement to be proactive about your career advancement. Opportunities do not present themselves you need to seek them out.

Pros

Great company to work. Lot oppurtunities to grow

Cons

Need to be road warrior

Advice to Senior Management

Great management

Pros

There are some good things to be said about Deloitte especially regarding its people and culture. There are lots of opportunities should you choose to seek them.

Cons

The work/life balance does not exist. Either you will be swamped with work from the client or extracurricular work.

Pros

Great people, networking networking networking!

Cons

insane Traveling , very less work life balance

Pros

good work culture awesome company to work for

Cons

hikes but good for the work

Pros

1) great culture
2) Own your career
3) New opportunities

Cons

Provide More interaction with client

Pros

Deloitte has unlimited learning opportunities, good starting salary, ability to gain exposure to various clients and industries.

Cons

Hours are crazy, need to be politically correct at all times, not a flat company, which means you often have to agree with your superiors even if you think there might be a better way to do things.

As an analyst, your work varies from the most mundane work (deck creation, excel manipulation) to leading-edge work such as building platforms and strategies for Fortune 500 companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Do more 360 feedback within the evaluation process.