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3.6

73% would recommend to a friend

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51% positive business outlook

Deloitte has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 81,894 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Deloitte employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management et conseil aux entreprises industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Mar 24, 2009
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Pros

As other folks have mentioned, it's a good resume builder, particularly if you are a CPA. I worked for Deloitte for 8 years in various professional services management roles within management/strategy consulting, technology and financial advisory services. The staff you'll work with are absolutely great. Smart, mostly good-natured, team-oriented.

Cons

Wow, where to begin. There are so many. As someone else suggested, if you can go in with a firm plan to only remain there 2 years, then definitely do it. Lifestyle is pretty poor. You will work many hours to be viewed as a 'team player'. They WILL pay you well for it. And chances are 2 years will slip by and you'll still be there, cursing yourself for your love of the money. The marketing department is a world onto itself. It seems to spend all day generating glossy e-brochures we'd get telling us how great work/life balance is (maybe it is for them, but not for the rest of us). The partners don't read or follow this stuff. Utilization is king. If you aren't busy on a billable engagement, no one cares what you bring to the table. Seriously, it is irrelevant. Partners are solely about profit. To the point when times get tough, they immediately move to layoff their talent. Keep in mind, this is professional services, so they're laying off the folks they'll need when the goodtimes return. I wish I had left this firm after 2-3 years. I made good money, got the promotions, yadda yadda. But there is a limited return on your level of effort. The consulting work is definitely 'generalist' and constantly changing. You don't get some amazing skillset that makes you irreplaceble. And the partnership overhypes their staff talent to clients to justify an average billing rate in the $500's. I mean, would you pay $20K a week for some college kid or MBA who didn't know your industry and the particular problem at hand thoroughly? Of course not. And so, you are stuck in the middle between unreasonable (but understandable) client expectations and a partnership which just wants it done well enough to collect receipts.

2.0
Sep 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Some interesting projects - Big D on your CV - Working with some fine minds - I left (no mistake here, this is a pro)

Cons

- Compensation is well below market avg - Bonus is a joke - Long hours (if you mention it management will tell you it's your fault not to stop working, not because you had to meet their crap deadlines and doing extra work on top of the client one as business development.... hilarious, isn't it?) - Many responsibilities while partners, earning 15-20 times your salary, are sipping gin & tonic at home - Early promotions are used just to keep you at the company, but in reality those are a mirage; it's all about how good a**-licker you are, certainly not about the value you delivered - Get ready to lie as there's no tomorrow in case you get promoted to a management position - Definitely not for honest, genuine people - Diversity yes, inclusion never seen - Recent layoffs announcement (probably to keep partners' milionaire bonuses high given they almost score a record every year )

1.0
Oct 11, 2021

Broken Culture

Recommend
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Pros

Not much to say - the brand opens doors later in your career, I guess that's the biggest part. I also learned how to put lipstick on a pig, so to speak.

Cons

Teams go through 4 stages of development - 1. forming (basic assembly) 2. storming (the rocky beginning as you learn to work with eachother) 3. norming (the second leg of figuring eachother out and learning how to operate smoothly as a team) 4. performing (the best part, you've learned to work together and now you're achieving your team goals) I was never part of a team that exited the storming phase. Deloitte hires a lot of type A, insecure overachievers. They're smart and driven people. However, the culture is just explosive. People are constantly fighting, constantly disagreeing, people are being hired and fired ad-nauseum. You can never catch a solid footing. As a result, we all suffer, the client included. The only reason this model works is because of the borderline oligopoly in federal consulting.

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