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    Deloitte Reviews

    Updated Sep 4, 2020

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    3.9
    ★★★★★
    78%
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    Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen
    Punit Renjen
    34 Ratings
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    • "No work life balance in Deloitte" (in 1294 reviews)

    • "low salary lower than industry average" (in 419 reviews)

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    1. "Excellent Benefits"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Current Employee - Senior Consultant in Washington, DC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time for more than 5 years

      Pros

      Parental Leave, Fitness Subsidy, generous PTO, "$20 11-hour meals," annual holiday "firm shutdown," they pay their employees during government shutdowns, etc.

      Cons

      Work life balance, firm initiatives, etc.

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    2. Helpful (973)

      "Great Place to start your career - Carefully read the cons"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Former Employee - AMS Associate in Boston, MA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Deloitte full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      These folks know exactly what they are doing. They set high standards, and consistently deliver. Their project expectations and planning is excellent. The top level management folks are extremely smart and have a great sense of vision and planning. If you go to company social events (which are very frequent by the way), it is quite easy to have conversations with upper management people (Partners). Deloitte's hiring pattern is very consistent. For the young starters, they hire smart, well spoken, and subtly aggressive candidates. They have excellent training and knowledge management. They have a well oiled and empowered HR and Tech Support group. Things get done pretty fast. Their paid time off program is really great, and pretty straight forward. No messing about. They have a big social responsibility program that encourages volunteering. It also presents a great opportunity for youngsters to take event organizing responsibilities. This can be very very useful. Once, I volunteered for an event where we painted rooms for an orphanage center. There was a young guy who did the organizing. We were 10-12 people, with 3 senior executives actually doing paintwork. Quite unique. I have personally seen that Deloitte's top talents tend to start young, spend a 3-4 years, then take a hiatus to pursue a Graduate Degree (typically an MBA). The firm sometimes re-hires these consultants after their MBA with generous financial incentives. They offer much better packages to folks graduating from top universities. Sometimes they can offer huge joining bonuses. I worked in the IT consulting division.They tend to get top-end projects. On projects, the average age seems pretty low. A lot of 20-somethings, then there are a handful of 30-40 year old people and some senior Management folks. Beginner salaries can be a bit low. (which is expected. It takes some time to build credibility in the Consulting business) Overall, a great place to start your professional career. If you pay attention, you will get seasoned very quickly.

      Cons

      Work-life balance can become poor, especially during tight project timelines (This is expected in the Consulting Business). The employees have a significant amount of "firm-internal" training and knowledge contribution tasks. There are annual goal expectations. It can get tedious if you continuously work on high demand projects. There is intense competition, especially during targeted promotion/milestone years. There can be some backstabbing. It's part of the experience. It is not as bad as it sounds, and seems manageable. A lot of times, being young and inexperienced has it's flaws. The company has a simple way of seasoning consultants. They get pushed into high pressure situations, and they learn fast, and quickly start managing their own work. But they tend to be blind towards intricate details, especially in complicated IT product implementations. This has an interesting effect. If someone is able to do the hands-on work, everyone else tries to piggy-back on that person for their actual work. The hands-on guy gets overwhelmed, and others try to use him/her as a key resource. -- I personally went through a crunch project, and found a number of people "managing expectations" (piggy backing), while a handful of people actually knew the end-to-end solution and did the hands-on work. This created a lot more work and mental anguish than needed. Because of the expressed pressure, the hands-on guys have a hard time building and growing their reputation and subsequent performance evaluation rating. This also affects the project execution timelines. IMPORTANT: Make sure you thoroughly read through your employment agreement and understand the implications. In recent years, they have started hiring for specific projects ONLY. This falls under a particular "AMS service line". In this case, if your assigned project gets into a problem, you are exposed to the risk of employment termination. Their HR and Management are very helpful, and they will try to get you a new project. But there are several constraints like location, your skills, and limited time. I went through this, and it was somewhat unnerving. This was one of the reasons I ended up leaving the company.

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    3. Helpful (25)

      "Great job but don't believe the diversity hype"

      4.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Former Employee - Senior Manager 
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Deloitte full-time for more than 10 years

      Pros

      You are in control of your career, will have the opportunity to learn much, chance to interact with high profile clients, and opportunities to enhance your leadership skills.

      Cons

      The organization practices age discrimination with mandatory partner retirement age, layoffs typically focus on those earning top of their spectrum (older workers), and while they say they are committed to women / minority issues these groups are often denied opportunities, disproportionately included in layoffs or year-end performance purges, and given lower wages when promoted or hired (e.g. one woman was promoted and got no pay raise while at Deloitte). Women are held to different standards being pushed to spend money to look and work on speaking "more professionally." Example: former leader told me I needed to lose weight if I expected to achieve leadership roles. Minority commitments are PR-crises management tactics and implemented for talent positioning (i.e. Best Places to Work). Example, a Juneteenth education was delivered on call by white male; women promoted are barracudas looking to make other women experience what they did to advance vs. supportive men; and male leadership often make advances on good-looking women in social situations. Ethics hot line is career mistake and reporting to it usually results in eventual retaliation (DO NOT EVER USE THIS LINE IF YOU VALUE YOUR JOB-- it does come into play no matter what they say.)

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    4. Helpful (2)

      "Big Company Feel"

      4.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Former Employee - Senior Consultant in Arlington, VA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Deloitte full-time for more than 3 years

      Pros

      Deloitte does almost everything and there are lots of opportunities. There are some good people there that actually care. It has pretty good benefits.

      Cons

      I worked for the part of Deloitte that supported government projects, which had the plus of not requiring as much travel, but had the con of not having the best group of employees to work with, some of which were a bit too pissy and negative for my liking. I'm glad I worked there, but I'm also glad I left. Being around negative people who aren't supportive was slowly draining me, and I'd say this combined with management miscommunications were the biggest cons. The company can feel a bit too big. The person who hired me retired after a year and my counselors (these are kind of like a some senior to you who is supposed help you out) kept on leaving the company. This combination of people I knew leaving the company in what seemed like a revolving door left me a bit disconnected. Transitioning to different projects on a regular basis can be hard and stressful. Networking is just about required to be able to stay in the loop on things, which can be alright but can also be kind of a drag.

    5. "Awesome place to work"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Current Employee - Business Analyst in Washington, DC

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time

      Pros

      Great benefits and awesome opportunities

      Cons

      Long hours, lots of after hours commitment

    6. "Top company to work for"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      Current Employee - Manager in New York, NY

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time

      Pros

      Great company to work for with very smart people, cafes about employees

      Cons

      Can be Long hours some weeks

    7. "Company Review"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
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      Current Employee - PROJECT DELIVERY SENIOR ANALYST 

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time

      Pros

      The working atmosphere is perfect. Everyone value each other

      Cons

      Compensation is less compared to expected for the year.

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Great firm"

      5.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Former Employee - Executive in New York, NY
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Deloitte full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Learned a lot of Excel & PPT!

      Cons

      None, I have tons of friends from office

    9. "Good opportunities for growth"

      4.0
      ★★★★★
      Current Employee - Manager in McLean, VA

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time

      Pros

      Interesting and impactful work. Smart people.

      Cons

      Very political. Need to have sponsor partners to get promoted

    10. "Good company culture but lower pay than peers"

      4.0
      ★★★★★
      • Work/Life Balance
        ★★★★★
      • Culture & Values
        ★★★★★
      • Career Opportunities
        ★★★★★
      • Compensation and Benefits
        ★★★★★
      • Senior Management
        ★★★★★
      Current Employee - Deloitte Audit Senior in New York, NY
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Deloitte full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Great company culture, Great CEO (Lara Abrash), Good Benefits

      Cons

      Compensation Lower than Peers (Other Big 4)

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