Deloitte Reviews in United Kingdom

Pros

- Collective responsibility
- Great management

Cons

- Might be boring
- Slow progress

Pros

The graduate programme I'm on has verry good training, both compulsory and optional. You are encouraged to pursue knowledge and expertise in areas you are interested in.

Most people i worked with are really nice and promote work life balance.

Flexible working arrangements. Though not always possible depends on the client, but when possible, even analysts are given the flexibility.

Cons

Projects are not as strategic as I was hoping for when I joined.

The company is expanding into too many areas in my opinion. We joined to do idea-based, high-value-adding and preferably strategic work. But instead, sometimes we get mundane and repetitive work.

Transfers between departments and countries could be more flexible.

Advice to Senior Management

Become best in something, instead of trying to amass everything. Be clearer about why the company is doing what it's doing and communicate it to every level of the firm. Provide people with more opportunities to transfer between departments and countries.

Pros

Well respected. Seriously clever people. Decent renumeration. Exciting projects

Cons

Many very nice people individually but horrible internal people skills. Very slow and resistant to change. Very set in it's ways. Not good at integrating new people. Terrible performance management. Very little feeling that anyone has any vested interest in you doing well - everyone is just out for themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Consulting isn't that big, start behaving like a dynamic, agile business. Allow your employees to feel valued and part of the team - not just a number

Pros

Plenty of learning opportunities
Working alongside some very intelligent people
Great for CV
Experience in several sectors
Good team spirit

Cons

Most work is London based, so will need to travel in if based in a regional office
Internal development work alongside client work can be suffocating
Working hours (dependant on project) can be very long
Career can come down to whether Director/Partner likes you or not

Advice to Senior Management

Less focus on internal development work
Support better work/life balance
More effective performance management procedure
Recompensing staff more competitively (compared to other Big4)

Pros

Clients
Challenging work
Colleagues - friendly and professional

Cons

No work life balance
Poor relative pay
Sometimes it can feel like you are on a billing conveyor belt

Advice to Senior Management

Put people first

Pros

Great people, forward-thinking, lots of opportunities for professional growth, good performance is rewarded. Plenty of opportunities for career advancement if it wanted.

Cons

Slararies are generally quite low.

Advice to Senior Management

Salaries tend to be quite low.

Pros

good work life balance, brand value, training

Cons

salary and other benifits are not good enough

Pros

High-profile clients; good team spirit with bright and capable colleagues. good development and learning opportunities. Good support staff and travel arrangements

Cons

Pay and bonus; cumbersome performance management processes und intransparent ratings. Feedback too much number-based at cost of qualitative feedback; while long working hours expected, too frequent stretch and work-life balance never achievable

Pros

- Very fast growing part of the organisation provides unique opportunities for growth.
- The knowledge level across the firm in almost domains are strong and is shared on request. Hence you could use that as collateral as well as for personal learning

Cons

- Senior management support is not very strong. At times you would have to be pro-active and be able to find your own way.

Pros

Full of great people who are talented and highly competent

Cons

Poor work-life balance, performance review can be inconsistent and talent management can be improved

Advice to Senior Management

Need to focus on talent management in particularly around consistency of management skills within the management team