Deloitte

Benefits, salary, the latest technology, and innovative peers are the best I have worked with. More company-wide holidays would allow everyone to have a real break from work.

Stuffy, bureaucratic, process-intensive. Work-life balance is difficult at times.

One PPMD with a problem is more important than 1000 non-PPMDs with another problem.

It's better to be seen working on a problem with no results than to sit down and have an open conversation on a solution.

Buying of software is too many times not based on the best application, but on which app can generate more money for Deloitte Consulting.

Better to be extraverted and loud than introverted and a producer.

Deloitte has a good culture of training its employees. DU is a great facility where you can brush up on many managerial skills. Your co-workers are the best and really are top-notch.

However, you can bust your butt and do good work in your primary duties and never be promoted unless you take on a second job at Deloitte doing extra-credit work. To advance at Deloitte, you must sacrifice your family, work on your PTO, answer emails on the weekend and at nights, be at one meeting online and answering emails in the background. You must overextend yourself. That is the Deloitte way.

The goal is to see how much you can give of yourself to Deloitte before you crack and have to leave. Some never do while others leave after a few years.

Now, you don't have to do these things I mentioned, but you won't progress unless you do. Some will take these comments negatively and some will not. It's just what you want out of life. But I loved my time there.

However, at Deloitte, you do own your career. If you're not self-motivated and highly adaptable to change, you will not make it.