Deloitte Reviews in Washington, DC , US Area

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits, salary, career opportunities, education opportunities, work environment

Cons – culture, work/life balance, senior management, inconsistent values

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for less than a year

Pros – The company is great. There is a true culture of excellence that permeates throughout the organization. The place can be non-stop if you stay billable.

Cons – Life there can become overwhelming, at times

Advice to Senior Management – Easy on the training, please!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great benefits; competitive salary; inclusive culture

Cons – extremely long hours in order to balance client contribution and firm contributions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Firm resources are fantastic for conducting one's work and developing yourself (e.g. Deloitte University, which is great)
Personnel at all levels are smart and motivated - best collective group I've ever worked with
Firm contributions - when led by a strong PPD - are great for professional enhancement
Even 'met expectations' ratings at year end can get generous AIP

Cons – Client service is secondary to demonstrating your knack for operating in the culture, such as performing firm contributions (aka voluntary 9th/10th hour assignments)
Matrixed collaboration-based model promotes non responsiveness/lack of accountability almost at an epidemic level
Performance evaluation process is broken. Although based on due diligence, rating process is subjective and brand/eminence criteria has morphed into a measure of popularity more than impact
Since so much face time is needed to succeed (in this case, Rosslyn VA HQ), Deloitte doesn't embrace folks who sit at client sites
Since nothing is written down (org charts, policies for example), no one understands how to succeed in the culture except by word of mouth or after you've stumbled

Advice to Senior Management – Address performance evaluation process and document what the tactics of success are (such as a performance accountability matrix or promotion criteria specific to a title)
Embrace the diversity of work performed across all Segments; right now if your job has RPH less than $130, it and the people working it are labeled as staff aug almost like an epithet

Former Employee – worked at Deloitte full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great people, great benefits, and consistent career growth opportunities. Respect that all staff were very approachable and, more importantly, no BS about playing "the game".

Cons – Experiences drastically differ based on project, service lines, etc.-- it's an exaggerated popularity contest. The matrix structure is a bit unwieldy and even senior staff are often caught in silos.

Advice to Senior Management – Suggest not applying consulting "smoke and mirrors" techniques to staff management, will help with retention.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Deloitte full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The ability to work with different business areas, and not just the typical ERS boring CPA-types.

Cons – The fact you had to work with the boring CPA-types if you fell under ERS.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Top notch talent. I worked with the absolute top of the field, folks with distinguished career achievements and solid understanding of their specialty. No slackers. No dopes. Excellence is the norm.

Cons – Count on 45-50 hours of weekly client service, plus mandatory volunteering, mentoring, training, counseling, administrative reporting burdens, and a personnel-evaluation process that sucks an entire month out of the service calendar.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the partnership model, it breeds distrust like a caste system. Then invest >20% in R&D/innovation, including some things that might fail. Embrace risk.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Deloitte full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Culture can be great if you're a fit. Training is a large focus and helps you advance your skills. Good partners become awesome mentors.

Cons – Internal Firm work detracts from being successful and often creates a split personality

Advice to Senior Management – Force people to roll off client service to work on firm initiatives - will create a better work product.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Deloitte full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people to work with
Most senior management is very strong
Vibrant community of employees

Cons – Slow to pick up and commit to new trends
Can get overly political at times

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Deloitte full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. The firm offers world class training in hard and soft skills. Makes one of the best places to work if you are just starting your career.
2. Offers above average benefits and compensation.
3. You may get very good exposure to a diverse set of industry projects

Cons – 1. They will continue to hire new staff with same skills even if you are on bench for a long time.
2. If you have over 2 decades of industry experience, you will be the last one to get hired on projects. And if you are on bench for over a certain number of weeks, you will be asked to leave.
3. Its a game of musical chairs to get billable on client projects.
4. Work life balance - one of the worst in the industry. Expectation is - put work before everything else including family.
5. Outside the firm exeperience is rarely respected. It is better to grow from entry level position to top. In other words - not a place to be for experienced hire.
6. Even if you are a very experienced professional , a junior colleague may write your performance reviews.
7. It does not matter how talented you are , if you are not well "networked" you will be on bench for ever.
8. Aggressive sales and poor execution of client projects
9. Very hard to please management. Quality rarely matters, where as quantity (number of hours, number of papers) do matter.
10. You are always compared to your peers for performance. If your peers put 80 hours per week, and you put only 60, you are rated "poorly performing".
11. You are always judged by your current numbers , and NOT by your potential or previous track record.
12. Due to exorbitant growth, the firm has become a wholesaler of technology practitioners.

Advice to Senior Management – There is something every one has unique talent that they can offer to business community. Know that talent early on and deploy the staff accordingly. Treat each practitioner uniquely and not as a widget.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend