Deloitte reviews

(1) 95% of the time the projects aren't the least bit interesting. Everyone shooting for partner wants to make a buck on their bread and butter tech implementation. The only way to land a "cool" project is to spearhead the effort of have someone in your network pursuing the engagement. Otherwise, you will be staffed to the first thing that resembles a fit. Again 200,000+ employees - all need to be staffed. (2) The rating system is bogus. You get a 1-5 rating for each project. Kiss enough butt you can get a 2. 1 is literally not an option to select on your assessment! If you are on a 1 yr project for a short phase and deserve a 2, and even give yourself a 2, you will get slammed with a 3 since there are other people who will be on the project longer and they will cry if they don't get one of the few (LIMITED) 3's. I've been told in confidence that this was the case on two assignments I was on. Will I try hard on my next project?.... (3) Its all about who you know. A true networking paradigm/ frat house/ etc. If you want to get promoted or recognized at Year end, this is how you do it. (4) Upward feedback is a joke. Want to rate your team/ superiors after each project (like you are evaluated)? Nope! You have wait till the week before your Year End submission to evaluate these guys. Guess what, they will be called upon for your annual evaluation a few weeks later and can surely pick you out of a review (good/bad) if it was done a week prior! (5) Commercial travel is the pits! I've traveled 6 days a week for 5 months (cross country) only to work 15 hr days, eat poorly, forget about exercising, and be treated like a lemming by the project leads.

IT IS A HORRIBLE COMPANY! DEVOID OF PEOPLE'S CARE - THEY JUST WANT TO MAKE MONEY OFF YOU! IT HAS BEEN A FEW WEEKS AND AFTER MY FIRST 3 DAYS WHEN I WAS DUMPED OUT TO FIGURE OUT BY MYSELF MY "HOTEL" WORKSTATION AND NOT HAVING ANYONE COME TO SAY HI, I'VE BEEN WANTING TO LEAVE! I feel that I have made the worse career move of my life. I'm an experience female with significant technical expertise (they hired me because of both - can't retain mid women managers and don't have enought knowleagle people to do the work- and this place and the way people treat you (you are just another body) goes against human nature and decency. They are all trying to protect their turf and their hours (not to give a single hour unless it benefits them). The first person I met (leader of the group I am supporting) hardly greeted me and just proceeded to tell me that I had to do "everthing" including things I have not done since over 20 years when I started my career. It is absolutely absurd! If you are considering this company don't accept their "glowing" offer until you meet the people you will be working with. Be warned, however, that no one is "your manager" yet many people "gossip" about you as they all seem to know what you are up to. It is as if they are conspiring to find out what you cannot do instead of helping you integrate to this white-walled, cold place. If you are over 50, most people you will work with are likely to be 1/2 your age. They are a very young company so that the PPDs can claim big salaries at the long hours of the younger/cheaper people or by using the LARGE group in India who are cheaper and will do what ever they are told to do. These young people have large egos - they are told that if they "don't make" it within their first 2 years they are out. And no one seem to care about you as an individual. They only care if you get them "out of trouble" since they seem to pose in many proposals as having all of this expertise and what they are doing is assigning young, green or unknowleable individuals to runs projects. I'm being "dumped" with problem projects because the existing senior leaders are not really competent. I can't help but be reminded every day of Donald Trump's "you are fired" show - this is how employees behave! I feel like I've made the worse professional mistake of my life.