People tend to look after themselves at Deloitte. I have seen many professionals back-stab each other just to get a promotion. The way you are staffed on projects is very political, and in order to get on the best projects you need to be in good with the staffer and the manager or partner leading the project. Deloitte does not care about your personal life and demands that you make your personal life a Deloitte life.

This is a very political firm. Staffer, Partners, and Managers choose their favorite employees and give them the best projects. When it comes to performance reviews, you better have established a good connection with your Manager or else your review will come out mediocre at best. It is now about who can perform the best in the company, it is about who can kiss up to the manager the best.

I was very unhappy with my time at Deloitte. They talk about having a good work/life balance, when in actuality, you spend so much time traveling and on the client site that your work becomes life. I always felt guilty when I took vacation time off, it was as if they didn't want me to take time off and expected me to work 24/7. The work really burnt me out.

Deloitte does a great job at indoctrinating you into their culture and teaching you the way they do things. You will get trained at a "boot camp" where you will meet Consultants from across the nation and have the opportunity to meet many diverse people at the company. Although the training and the effort put in is well received, the actual process seems very stifling and as if you're been inducted into a cult. I feel like its "do it the Deloitte way or you're out."