1. No Work life balance.
2. You don't have a freedom to say No to there decisions even it's a mistake.
3. Partiality in promotions, hikes, etc. between laterals and campus recruits.
Between 2018-2019, Deloitte had performed mass hiring by expecting projects which are in pipeline. Unfortunately Covid caused the business to slowdown. Few, Existing projects went on hold and the projects which are on pipeline are freezed.
Deloitte USI SAP strength is approx. 6-7K, as projects went on hold around 600-700 people came on bench, this created panic in leadership and they fired around 10-15% employees silently (3 people from my project itself).
Later they brought policies like double hatting, etc even though it's called as optional for employees they forced us to work on two projects simultaneously resulting in filling 14-15 hours/day on timesheet. They promised to pay incentives but with a catch, if an employee takes a leave or if there is a firm holiday in two weeks, you won't be eligible for the extra pay (incentives to be paid after 2 months).
Despite of working on so hard last year, contributing a lot to organization, they had not given any hikes to their employees and gave very minimal bonus.
In December, we had a webinar with Deloitte USI SAP Leadership, employees raised a question about hikes and work life balance, they downplayed and acted like everyone are happy, when an employee raised a question saying that companies like Accenture, TCS, TechM are giving hikes and bonus why can't Deloitte follow them and the leadership replied that "You should be happy that you have a job today, instead of thanking us you are asking about hikes".
This reply had downgraded moral of employees and people started resigning, almost 30-40% of employees resigned since December.
I am a consultant in SAP implementation project consisting of approx. 30 Developers, out of which 18-20 people left organization by March. This is just an example from a development team in a mid size SAP project.
The situation is same across other projects as well. I have been in firm for close to 3 years and worked for 5 implementation project, the timelines are always short and your manager/leads gives estimates for your objects without considering your opinion or complexity of project.
Situation was so bad in Feb/March, HR's had stepped in to bring a policy saying "Good bye Mails" are against policy and if anyone sends, it will effect their relieving process (people serving notice period received a personal email and mentioned in it).
Leadership realized their mistake and tried to give a one-time bonus of 1L in case if we revert our resignation, but their is a catch. Employees need to continue in the organization for next 1 year.
Deloitte lost majority of its cream employees and to replace them with resources immediately, they started reducing the difficulty of interview process. Panel were asked to select min. 60-70% from the profiles shared with them no-matter how they perform.
Personally, I had raised work life balance concerns to my project and SM on multiple occasions, a person can stretch 14-15 hrs/day for a week or month at max, but it's been more than 4 months and severely effecting my health. Last year i couldn't take even a single day of holiday, even when i was on leave for sick, they called multiple times on my mobile and forced me to login.
Despite of doing a lot for organization (around 1900 FI hours in 3 years) they didn't consider about employees well-being or hikes at difficult situations. Moreover leadership acts brought employees moral down.
One lady employee, who got promoted to MD last year says that she didn't receive any hike despite of her promotion and she is fine with it. She expects a BTA/CON/SCON take her as an example and stop complaining about hikes.
At her level, who draws 70-80L per year won't make a difference even if there is no hike, whereas an employee at lower level every penny is important who earns under 10L PA. She can't compare her sacrifice with other's.
