Evaluaciones de Deloitte

Desventajas

El equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida personal puede resultar deficiente, especialmente durante los plazos ajustados del proyecto (esto se espera en el negocio de consultoría). Los empleados tienen una cantidad significativa de tareas de formación y aportación de conocimiento "internas de la empresa". Hay expectativas de metas anuales. Puede resultar tedioso si trabaja continuamente en proyectos de alta demanda. Existe una intensa competencia, especialmente durante los años de promoción / hitos específicos. Puede haber algunas puñaladas por la espalda. Es parte de la experiencia. No es tan malo como parece y parece manejable. Muchas veces, ser joven e inexperto tiene sus defectos. La empresa tiene una forma sencilla de condimentar a los consultores. Se ven empujados a situaciones de alta presión, aprenden rápido y rápidamente comienzan a administrar su propio trabajo. Pero tienden a ser ciegos ante los detalles intrincados, especialmente en implementaciones complicadas de productos de TI. Esto tiene un efecto interesante. Si alguien puede hacer el trabajo práctico, todos los demás intentan aprovechar a esa persona para su trabajo real. El tipo práctico se abruma y otros intentan utilizarlo como un recurso clave. - Personalmente pasé por un proyecto crucial y encontré a varias personas "manejando las expectativas" (a cuestas), mientras que un puñado de personas realmente conocía la solución de extremo a extremo e hizo el trabajo práctico. Esto creó mucho más trabajo y angustia mental de la necesaria. Debido a la presión expresada, los muchachos prácticos tienen dificultades para construir y hacer crecer su reputación y la calificación de evaluación de desempeño posterior. Esto también afecta los cronogramas de ejecución del proyecto. IMPORTANTE: asegúrese de leer detenidamente su contrato de trabajo y comprender las implicaciones. En los últimos años, han comenzado a contratar SOLO para proyectos específicos. Esto se incluye en una "línea de servicio AMS" particular. En este caso, si su proyecto asignado se mete en un problema, está expuesto al riesgo de despido. Sus RR.HH. y la dirección son muy útiles e intentarán conseguirle un nuevo proyecto. Pero existen varias limitaciones como la ubicación, sus habilidades y el tiempo limitado. Pasé por esto y fue algo desconcertante. Esta fue una de las razones por las que terminé dejando la empresa.

Desventajas

- Hierarchy: The firm seems very hierarchical in terms of interactions. I get the need to have levels but it can be much to feel like you have to cater to anyone a level above you. - Long hours: This is to be expected at the big 4 and coming from industry, it surprised me when I saw my colleagues on Teams at 8 PM. It added a weird pressure about my clocking off early. There are really no set hours but pressure. Competitive: There are performance snapshots comparing you to your peers within the level. This adds pressure and stress to feel like you perform at the top for promotion.

Desventajas

Progression is very much a popularity contest. You 100% need approval / sponsorship from a couple of senior partners to be approved for promotion. This can be difficult if you are not a naturally extroverted relationship builder. Onboarding process is incredibly lengthy and complicated. If you are new to a firm like Deloitte, learning the internal processes, acronyms and team structures takes months. A strong 'work hard' culture can mean there is sometimes an expectation of working late / weekends, depending on who is leading your project. Some senior leaders are so embedded in their projects, they forget not everyone lives and breathes their work. Not unusual to get a message on a Sunday about work, although to its credit this is not the overall company's ethos, and is more down to individuals.

Desventajas

If you want to work hard and be valued for your talent, this is not the place for you. You will be promoted based on how much leadership likes you, not how skilled you are. You're in direct competition with your teammates for promotions, which leads to a very cutthroat and toxic work environment. Work-life balance is non-existent. For years Deloitte has been consistently named one of the best places to work for mothers, which is a joke. Yes, their maternity leave policy is very generous, but when you come back to work you'll never see your family again. There's a huge push to get involved in activities outside of client work (proposal writing, firm initiatives), to the point that if you aren't involved your annual review will suffer. And these activities count against your utilization rate, so good luck ever using all the PTO you earn. You will only do well here if your career is your entire life.

Desventajas

Managing-up culture, those who are recognized and promoted get there by ingratiating themselves to leadership. You have to be competent to get by, but the overall culture results in "good talkers" being promoted over "hard workers" - and leads to backstabbing and unethical behavior. This often persists and HR is not empowered to change things. Results in little trust amongst team members and in the company. Leadership talk a good game but don't follow through. Jobs are cut quietly and due to the size of the company, very little news gets out. Unethical and borderline abusive behavior from some leaders and team members. It's a very large place, so it's hard to navigate, and actions from different central groups are disjointed. Hard workers are taken advantage of within teams, but are not necessarily recognized. If you can play the game, you'll do well, but if you're looking for a more honest and open environment where the quality of work is valued over perceptions, you might want to look elsewhere.

Desventajas

You have to be selfish with your time. If you don’t know how to do that, you’ll need to learn. There are so many opportunities constantly being thrown your way. You can’t say yes to everything. I went through that phase, most consultants do. It’s not maintainable. Just figure out who does what interests you most and shoot your shot. I’ve never been turned away when I’ve chased the work that fulfills me at this company - not one time. Whether you burn out or love what you do, you make the choice with every yes and no.

Desventajas

If you are comfortable being the steps (literally) to other's success it may be the right place for you. This type of environment does not foster teamwork and collaboration, more like a me mentality. I heard one manager refer to himself as a hard-on and he was proud of that. Those people keep on moving while leadership looks the other way.

Desventajas

Lack of empathy from management when going through personal crises. Little mentorship and constructive feedback. High burnout and performance reviews fail to acknowledge proposal or initiative work. Not all managers are inclined to complete performance reviews.

Desventajas

- redundancies in the UK heavily penalised some high performers: I was a high performer with 90% utilisation for 2 years (100% if I hadn’t taken paid leave). Due to mistakes done by leadership in selecting groups to be made redundant, I was in a very small pool competing with other high performers. I was been let go although leadership kept insisting utilisation and performance are the key metrics for promotion. - terrible on-boarding for new experienced hires - Seniors insist someone can work on any type of project they want and they can become the SME on anything they want; the reality is that there is an awful amount of politics and it is very hard to network your way out of a long term project project / specific operating unit that do not reflect your career aspirations.

Desventajas

* Extreme micromanagement from managers * Coaches can drop you at any point for no reason at all * Performance reviews must be done quarterly and heavily rely on if your manager likes you or not. If they give you negative reviews, you can get fired depending on if your project- based * Extreme favoritism * Long hour work week (longer than 40 hours) * No clear training in projects so you are expected to learn magically by yourself * Compensation is not competitive enough and definitely DOES NOT match the market * Horrible, terrible work environment that causes anxiety