Deloitte Digital Seattle: Good and Bad - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Deloitte

3,0
18 jan 2016
Anonieme werknemer
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

• Deloitte overall is a great company. This review is about Deloitte Digital Seattle. • Great Benefits. Insurance, Devices, Cell Plan discounts, all coming from Deloitte. • Possibility to travel and accumulate miles. AMEX provided for expenses. • Good infrastructure, well run company with solid business model. • Worldwide recognition of belonging to Deloitte. You can work anywhere in the world if you are on a project. Possibilities of relocation. • Opportunities for months long deployments to Europe, Australia, India, etc. • Not just a tech company, so there they are not insanely gender imbalanced. • Good food, modern office. • Great place to be at for 1 to 2 years if you are junior (below A7), then leave and get another job to get a raise. • Huge bonuses and perks (30-40 days of PTO, pension) if you are senior level. Again, Deloitte is a great company to work at.

Minpunten

This applies to Deloitte Digital in Seattle: • No career tracks for anybody interested in the mobile space. You need to get into the enterprise space if you want to move up. • Huge amounts of corporate speak. Never ending emails. Forced trainings on stuff you don't care about. • Company doesn't know where its going, it just chases buzzwords. • Marketing team just makes up ridiculous lines like "WHAT IS DIGITAL?". Read their blog for a good laugh at some of the ridiculous buzzword filled stuff they spew. • Exploitative of anybody who is not senior (A7 and above in the associate model). You will get paid below market rate • The entire consulting business model is a pyramid scheme made on charging a client tons of money and paying people newly out of college peanuts. • No overtime is paid, while the client gets charged hundreds an hour. • Junior levels will never get a raise even if they ask for it, seniors often get raises. • Huge turnover. 2 people leaving per week is average. Only senior levels stay because they get paid close to market rate if they negotiated well. • Backstabbing poisonous review models twice a year that takes up tons of time. People will talk garbage behind your back. BS "goal" oriented reviews in a company with little possibility of advancement. It is all about who likes you or not whether you sink or swim. • Entire leadership lives in a cloud of their own buzzword BS as seen by their published reports and them blowing half a million on SXSW Shows that say nothing. • There are people who have done nothing for months at a time because there is no work to do. Pure psychological torture, it can destroy people mentally. There even was a legendary case of a developer who "disappeared", never showed up to work and nobody noticed, kept getting paid for months, and eventually quit, he became an absolute legend. • The studio is empty half ot the time and nobody knows where people are, even though working from home is frowned upon. It looks like a ghost town. • Whole place is run by power brokers who have decisions on your careers, better not get on their wrong side. Don't mess with the Senior Engagement Managers, always be on their side. • Deloitte does not get mobile and never will, eventually the whole scheme will dry up and they will end up doing what they know how to do well, corporate projects like IBM. Nothing wrong with that, it is their DNA. • The entire office is made up of young people because they are easy to exploit and don't stand up for themselves, and the creative/mobile types have no career ambitions. • Even the people at leadership positions are unhappy at the thing Deloitte imposes and it is no secret. To prospective workers there: Go for it, don't look at the negatives, see for yourself, it might be great, and you may make a ton of money: Always reject the first offer they make you at the interview, they will make you another one. They have a 50% profit margin on your hourly rate or more. The market is on your side these times. Always shoot for A7 or above if you are applying for senior or semi senior position. Ask for a level raise to A5 or 6. A4 gets no bonuses. It takes years of masterful plotting to move up, every level matters, you get paid more. Most employees get very low bonuses, will never get any significant raises and are basically churnable stock with no recognition.

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These folks know exactly what they are doing. They set high standards, and consistently deliver. Their project expectations and planning is excellent. The top level management folks are extremely smart and have a great sense of vision and planning. 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). Deloitte's hiring pattern is very consistent. For the young starters, they hire smart, well spoken, and subtly aggressive candidates. They have excellent training and knowledge management. They have a well oiled and empowered HR and Tech Support group. Things get done pretty fast. Their paid time off program is really great, and pretty straight forward. No messing about. They have a big social responsibility program that encourages volunteering. It also presents a great opportunity for youngsters to take event organizing responsibilities. This can be very very useful. Once, I volunteered for an event where we painted rooms for an orphanage center. There was a young guy who did the organizing. We were 10-12 people, with 3 senior executives actually doing paintwork. Quite unique. 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). The firm sometimes re-hires these consultants after their MBA with generous financial incentives. They offer much better packages to folks graduating from top universities. Sometimes they can offer huge joining bonuses. I worked in the IT consulting division.They tend to get top-end projects. On projects, the average age seems pretty low. A lot of 20-somethings, then there are a handful of 30-40 year old people and some senior Management folks. Beginner salaries can be a bit low. (which is expected. It takes some time to build credibility in the Consulting business) Overall, a great place to start your professional career. If you pay attention, you will get seasoned very quickly.

Minpunten

Work-life balance can become poor, especially during tight project timelines (This is expected in the Consulting Business). The employees have a significant amount of "firm-internal" training and knowledge contribution tasks. There are annual goal expectations. It can get tedious if you continuously work on high demand projects. There is intense competition, especially during targeted promotion/milestone years. There can be some backstabbing. It's part of the experience. It is not as bad as it sounds, and seems manageable. A lot of times, being young and inexperienced has it's flaws. The company has a simple way of seasoning consultants. They get pushed into high pressure situations, and they learn fast, and quickly start managing their own work. But they tend to be blind towards intricate details, especially in complicated IT product implementations. This has an interesting effect. If someone is able to do the hands-on work, everyone else tries to piggy-back on that person for their actual work. The hands-on guy gets overwhelmed, and others try to use him/her as a key resource. -- 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. This created a lot more work and mental anguish than needed. Because of the expressed pressure, the hands-on guys have a hard time building and growing their reputation and subsequent performance evaluation rating. This also affects the project execution timelines. IMPORTANT: Make sure you thoroughly read through your employment agreement and understand the implications. In recent years, they have started hiring for specific projects ONLY. This falls under a particular "AMS service line". In this case, if your assigned project gets into a problem, you are exposed to the risk of employment termination. Their HR and Management are very helpful, and they will try to get you a new project. But there are several constraints like location, your skills, and limited time. I went through this, and it was somewhat unnerving. This was one of the reasons I ended up leaving the company.

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