Deloitte reviews

This was by far the worst employer I ever had. The culture of bullying has a top-down design and you will be bullied until you learn how to bully downwards. Performance reviews are basically a blame game where the most important thing to learn, if you are to survive them, is how to blame someone else when project goes wrong. And projects go wrong all the time due to incompetent management and chase for market-share. Integrity is priority zero - top level management, from directors to partners, certified public accountants, certified internal/external auditors, certified forensic auditors will go as low as to lie under oath. Total deterioration of moral values. It will make you disgusted by the whole profession.

I hated almost every minute of this job once I started full time (I started out as an intern, and let me tell you, their internships are NOT representative of how you will ultimately be treated when you are full time). -Travelled all the time -Never worked less than 60 hours per week, usually more like 80-90 -Treated like absolute dirt - there is absolutely no respect given to staff. Seniors (who are at most 2 years ahead of you) think it's their role to make you feel as insignificant as possible. -Tedious, rote, remedial work is all you get to do for your first couple of years. It's such a waste! Big 4 hire the best, brightest, most ambitious young people out there and then they waste their talents, treat their people like garbage, and burn employees out in one year flat usually. I had a Master's degree and was a CPA when I started there and was doing the most basic data entry, errand boy-type work you could ever imagine (can you say "bagel duty"?). -It's not okay to think outside of the box -You are just a cog in the wheel- you have no idea what your work means to the overall picture of one audit, much less the firm as a whole -Woefully underpaid given the circumstances -Everyone promoted and paid on a set schedule, regardless of your performance compared to your peers -Cliques, good ol' boys club, brown-nosing, politics People who stick around are sycophants and puppets. Life is much better on the "outside", or "in industry" as they say.