Deloitte Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area

Pros

Lots of exposure to different clients
Possibility of responsibility
Good work/life balance at times

Cons

Reviews and advancement are very subjective
You do not have much choice in what you work on
You will work any time as needed, and emails late into the night are smiled upon

Advice to Senior Management

Show appreciation for employees hard work, and respect different working styles of individuals.

Pros

You learn a great deal

Cons

1) No respect for your personal time - there is no work/life balance
2) Expectations are communicated and status given, however, something always seems to come up to imped a promotion
3) Do not believe that everyone will make Partner / Director

Advice to Senior Management

1) Be more respectful of people's lives and respect work / life balance
2) Level with people more fully about their career potential in the firm - do not continue to lead people on about promotion possibilities when it is clearly not in the cards
3) If you want to retain people, you are going to have to make the salaries more reflective of what can be obtained in industry - right now, Deloitte is behind industry for a very demanding job

Pros

Smart driven people with a work hard / play hard attitude
Focus on professional growth and client service
Good variety of experience working across multiple industries and projects

Cons

Leadership support for career growth and development especially at the senior levels
Limited work life balance
Lack of focus on core competencies - tries to be everything to all clients

Advice to Senior Management

Sharper stratgeic focus on key service offerings with more investment in building high level of competence in these areas rather than breadth of services

Pros

Great culture! Very supportive of any concerns you may have. Great learning environment

Cons

It's a great place but very competitive....are you ready to put 120% 100% of the time? All type A's looking to get ahead faster

Advice to Senior Management

More aknowldegement to those who deserve it. When you have all type A's working together, work life balance is a theory of the past.

Pros

- Great name recognition
- Great work life balance

Cons

- Very political environment
- Not a meritocracy : Promotions are awarded based on personal relationships
- No clear approach on how to conduct engagements
- Deloitte work has very little substance
- Too much impact is put on office/community activities

Advice to Senior Management

Need to pay and promote based on performance otherwise this will end up being a ship where most people at the top are not up to the job

Pros

At Deloitte you are surrounded with smart, profession and hard working people. They push the bar very high in terms of their performance, management and delivery . Absolute world class environment to work. If you want to bring something new to the organization, you can lead the effort and own it. Your consulting skills will be polished to become the best in industry.

Cons

Very easy to get lost in the big sea of competition. You should always be on the lookout to grab an opportunity that will differentiate you from others. Almost impossible to have a work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work in leading by examples. It is sometimes important to see outside the hierarchy and reach out to people for inputs.

Pros

Management is very good in certain aspects

Cons

Lots of Layoffs when the market is down

Advice to Senior Management

they are good, look at the future, please stop following last in first out policy... you have lost many good guys because of this

Pros

Competency of peers and colleagues forces you to perform at your best. Career advancement in areas of interest and the ability to manage your own career.

Cons

Despite recent house-cleaning, there is still some disparity between the performance and competency of those in management roles. There is a need to define different career paths for employees in different streams and different goals.

Advice to Senior Management

Great work in communications over the past year! Lack of Quarterly Staff Meetings and some any social events is stifling the creation of internal networks and the ability of some of the newer practitioners to prosper.

Pros

Strong national presence and international network

Cons

Unnecessary titles and leadership roles for non-client partners

Advice to Senior Management

Minimize administrative partners who do not carry client responsibility.

Pros

Super talented peers, awesome environment, great volunteer opportunities, etc.

Cons

Can only be promoted at year-end, not enough visibility to what other functions of Deloitte are working on, not as easy to move around in the firm as one might think

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you do