Deloitte Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area

Pros

Deloitte offers a lot of opportunities with fortune 500 companies, thus allowing its practitioners to have various exposure to different projects and industries

Cons

Sometimes practitioners cannot choose projects and it may require one hundred percent travels, and could be coast to coast. Firm initiatives are pushed very hard within Deloitte, which could put unnecessary stress to practitioners.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should reduce firm initiatives that may hinder practitioners from completing or focusing one hundred percent to client related work.

Pros

benefits are competitive, i think

Cons

low wage low promotion low morale

Advice to Senior Management

practice what you preach

Pros

Brand reputation, good way to kick start your career
Great exposure into different industries and various levels of management
Flexibility, you set your own schedule

Cons

Hard to move within practice or group
Under staffed, over worked, and under paid.
Low morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Too top heavy. They need to start firing incompetent managers and hire more staff to get the job done.

Pros

Deloitte offers opportunities to grow professionally, work with some of the best in the profession. Vast experience working on high tech projects delivering excellent client projects.

Cons

Usually client work is away from home office, a lot of travel and staying at client cities can adversally impact family life.

Advice to Senior Management

Deloitte strongly believes in building its practtioners. Project related reports could be better streamlined so that practitioner's core delivery capabilities are considered.

Pros

Good training opportunities
Interesting projects
Broad range of networking opportunities
Good exposure to upper management at various industry partners

Cons

Management competency varies greatly; never met so many disrespectful managers.
Constantly having to re-establish credibility with every new project.
Personal time not valued; no work life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Value your employees and treat them with respect. Try to leverage more value from those who have prior non-MBA experience.

Pros

- Ability to work with high caliber people
- Strong leadership of senior management team, who are also very approachable
- Ability to work in a fast pace and challenging environment

Cons

- Office politics, depending on office location and group
- Over emphasis on utilization

Advice to Senior Management

Clear strategic direction, which is communicated to all levels of the firm.

Pros

- opportunities for growth
- resources available
- interesting work
- flexible workplace
- good benefits
- pay is fair

Cons

- management is too busy to properly foster growth
- emphasis is on billable work and often seems short-sighted
- bonus are not significant
- increasingly difficult to manage successful career and personal life as you grow with the company

Advice to Senior Management

- lower charge goals
- hire more people US based staff

Pros

Self improvement is made a priority. You are always learning something new and every day is different. The practitioners are very smart and social.

Cons

Poor work and life balance. Long hours and not a steady work schedule. Everything must be done a certain way.

Advice to Senior Management

I believe that the leadership at Deloitte is doing a fantastic job of promoting self improvement in order to succeed in the firm.

Pros

the pay and benefits are seductive-- but the workforce is so lean, no one has time to take their 6 weeks of vacation off.

Cons

work/life balance and overall 'fairness" in promotions, layoffs and transfers- very much an 'old boy network. If you're not a PPD, you're nothing,

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people fairly and with respect. Don't count on just pay to make you successful. Eliminate the old boy network and strive to treat non PPDs more fairly- especially those who aren't directly in client service.

Pros

Brand name on your resume,

Cons

Too political, all that partner cares about is selling/billing hrs

Advice to Senior Management

Processes are missing