These firms are members of a UK private company limited by guarantee called Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, or DTTL. Deloitte LLP is a brand under which hundreds of firms work to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services. This was one of the reasons I ended up leaving the company.This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch funded from 2006 - 2009 by the American Legacy Foundation.ĭeloitte Touche Tohmatsu (doing business as Deloitte) is one of the Big Four accounting firms, the others being Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. I went through this, and it was somewhat unnerving. But there are several constraints like location, your skills, and limited time. Their HR and Management are very helpful, and they will try to get you a new project. In this case, if your assigned project gets into a problem, you are exposed to the risk of employment termination. ![]() This falls under a particular "AMS service line". In recent years, they have started hiring for specific projects ONLY. IMPORTANT: Make sure you thoroughly read through your employment agreement and understand the implications. This also affects the project execution timelines. Because of the expressed pressure, the hands-on guys have a hard time building and growing their reputation and subsequent performance evaluation rating. This created a lot more work and mental anguish than needed. I personally went through a crunch project, and found a number of people "managing expectations" (piggy backing), while a handful of people actually knew the end-to-end solution and did the hands-on work. The hands-on guy gets overwhelmed, and others try to use him/her as a key resource. If someone is able to do the hands-on work, everyone else tries to piggy-back on that person for their actual work. But they tend to be blind towards intricate details, especially in complicated IT product implementations. They get pushed into high pressure situations, and they learn fast, and quickly start managing their own work. The company has a simple way of seasoning consultants. It is not as bad as it sounds, and seems manageable.Ī lot of times, being young and inexperienced has it's flaws. There is intense competition, especially during targeted promotion/milestone years. It can get tedious if you continuously work on high demand projects. The employees have a significant amount of "firm-internal" training and knowledge contribution tasks. Work-life balance can become poor, especially during tight project timelines (This is expected in the Consulting Business). If you pay attention, you will get seasoned very quickly. Overall, a great place to start your professional career. It takes some time to build credibility in the Consulting business) A lot of 20-somethings, then there are a handful of 30-40 year old people and some senior Management folks.īeginner salaries can be a bit low. On projects, the average age seems pretty low. I worked in the IT consulting division.They tend to get top-end projects. Sometimes they can offer huge joining bonuses. They offer much better packages to folks graduating from top universities. The firm sometimes re-hires these consultants after their MBA with generous financial incentives. I have personally seen that Deloitte's top talents tend to start young, spend a 3-4 years, then take a hiatus to pursue a Graduate Degree (typically an MBA). ![]() We were 10-12 people, with 3 senior executives actually doing paintwork. There was a young guy who did the organizing. Once, I volunteered for an event where we painted rooms for an orphanage center. ![]() It also presents a great opportunity for youngsters to take event organizing responsibilities. They have a big social responsibility program that encourages volunteering. Their paid time off program is really great, and pretty straight forward. They have a well oiled and empowered HR and Tech Support group. They have excellent training and knowledge management. For the young starters, they hire smart, well spoken, and subtly aggressive candidates. If you go to company social events (which are very frequent by the way), it is quite easy to have conversations with upper management people (Partners).ĭeloitte's hiring pattern is very consistent. The top level management folks are extremely smart and have a great sense of vision and planning. Their project expectations and planning is excellent. ![]() They set high standards, and consistently deliver. These folks know exactly what they are doing.
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