Deloitte Reviews in Washington, DC , US Area

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

Pros – Great resume builder; access to an excellent network of professionals (if you are motivated to network), lots of great projects - though you'll have to hustle to get on one of them - and opportunities to develop your career in a lot of different directions if you so choose.

Cons – You have to manage your career or you will either be pigeon-holed into a niche you may not like or left on the bench twiddling your thumbs.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

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 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 3 years

Pros – Great network, interesting projects, large client base, flexibility, Deloitte University, Health Subsidy

Cons – Constant moving targets / requirements for promotion, major time commitment, old-boy/girls network, commercial model for federal practice, though large portfolio of clients majority of work is support staff work, work/life balance non-exitstent

Advice to Senior Management – Vet your senior staff. Too many of the old BearingPoint Senior Managers are still lurking. They don't believe in the Deloitte culture and make it very difficult for practitioners to achieve company expectations

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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 – Culture of excellence, awesome career challenges, work with best in class peers, some inspiring leaders, and competitive benefits IF you miraculously worked 40-45 hours; (see CONS)

Cons – Where to start How about with my headlines.
Most places expect you to work 40 hours a week. Some places a bit more.
Few have have leadership (PPDs) who make an *average* of $600k annually, but blackmail junior staff (who make a tiny fraction of PPD income) into working for free by calling it a "Firm Contribution". Pardon?
Contributions are what feed the poor, house the homeless, and teach struggling kids. Deloitte made $30 Billion (USD) last year. The partners are the least in need of a "contribution" . Yet if staff fail to make this 'contribution' they will either not get promoted, or they will be shown the door.
Contribution used to be based on number of hours, but is moving to "impact" namely how much money did your slave labor bring into the firm? If the impact isn't great enough, if you didn't "contribute" enough, (regardless of other performance metrics) please bring your badge and laptop to a meeting with HR.
So maybe you make $140k, but if you tally it up against the hours asked of you, you really only make $75k versus working for a sane, ethical organization that doesn't extort free work from you.

I'll save some text here; Google "Rank and Yank" to understand how HR and evaluations work. 10% are cut from Deloitte annually, no matter what. I've had some awesome couselees kicked to the curb because they missed some minor metric, even if overall they were star performers. It makes for both a revolving-door culture for most people, and as noted in some other reviews, nepotism for the folks who want to get to PPD.
You will not make it to partner based on performance and client reviews, or even your book of business, unless you trip over some multi-million dollar opportunity. *WHO YOU KNOW* rules, and even that won't save you if you miss bare-minimum metrics, like "firm contribution".

Lastly, if you are at all 'different', that is creative, innovative, bold, interesting, tattooed, pierced, artsy, talented in a niche, or otherwise don't look like the shiny happy faces you can see in Deloitte-posted videos, don't bother.
They (honestly) do accept LGBT and folks of all colors/ancestry with grace and blind eyes. HOWEVER: Deloitte hires, retains, and promotes people who 'look'/think' like Deloitte. They want to claim to be 'innovative' and 'bold', but their DNA is an AUDIT/RISK FIRM, a TAX firm, and a FINANCIAL ADVISORY firm, even if they also do some consulting. Do the math. BEANCOUTER MENTALITY prevades. If you question the system enough times, or think you know a better way to do something, just bring your badge and laptop to a meeting with HR.

There is no Hawaiian-Print Shirt Day, however you WILL be required to work, errr... ummm, I mean "volunteer" on some of your holidays to either do commuity service, or come to the office for all-hands meetings.
Other reviews eloquently cover most of the ugly under-belly of this rat in shiny green-dot clothing. I spent seven years with Deloitte, and can tell you, she is most beautiful when viewed in the rear-view mirror, receding like a roadside snake-oil saleman in the desert distance behind me. Be warned. Most of the best I knew there have left, and the few that remain are eyeing the door. And God-forbid Deloitte is eyeing your firm for a Merger/Acquisition. Ugh.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing. It was a small iceberg, and the ship is too big to sink. See you in New York in three days.
Okay, more directly, the PPDs who fought the slice-off of Consulting were WRONG. Consulting should be its own thing, free to innovate, take risks, even piss-off DTTL audit clients. The interweaving of the stone-chiseled AERS, TAX, and FA businesses makes consulting a clunky, stupid, ham-strung business. Further, ditch the "Partner" model. It is simply too slow to make decisions versus heirarchical models. You are swimming in molasses, while other water-ski by. Lastly, ditch the Rank/Yank model. Were are gifted/talented consultants, not widget-makers. a natural ebb and flow of ability, engagement, and performance is normal throughout people's careers. when you cut staff who are underperforming, you free them to apply their highest subsequent performance cycles at a competitor, or worse as a start-up/entrepreneur, with whom Deloitte is just to slow, clunky and bloated to compete.
DU was the bright spot, though the secret PPD 'penthouse' only confirmed the "us/them" division the partnership model embodies. That model breeds more contempt than trust, more ire than desire to perform. ditch it.

No, I would not 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