Deloitte reviews

-90% of your satisfaction with the firm depends on your project (e.g. if project is understaffed or poorly-managed, you can be stuck in a rough spot for several months...granted you can always add value by performing at a high level in your role, success rarely hinges on a single analyst's ability to add value). -Continuing education classes, compliance training, practice development activities, firm activities, Impact Day, recruiting, all-hands events, service line meetings, Deloitte holidays, government holidays, all count against your utilization. Utilization refers to your requirement to spend 95% of the 2080 hours in the year (52 weeks * 40 hours/week) on client work, which doesn't include any of the things listed above. Usually everything totals to anywhere between 50 and 70 hours per week of work, and the non-client work actually ends up forcibly distracting you from your client work, which is supposed to be a priority. -Retirement benefits are practically non-existent...vesting and accrual start around year 3, with puny matching contributions.

1) Partners have very poor visibility to actual on the ground performance and mostly go with what the manager/senior manager has to say about you. 2) Very poor support processes/HR team. After having worked for two of the big four, a manufacturing firm and an Indian IT shop I know things can be better. Especially for a company of such repute 3) Work life balance is non existent. 80 hours and you are a slacker. You fall sick working, then you are doing a good job