Deloitte reviews

- Cut-throat culture - Counselors are often inept and downright damaging to your career - No accountability for leadership - Salary decisions have zero visibility - If you have a clearance, you are pigeon-holed into certain jobs - Ratings are extremely subjective. Because most people in the federal sector work for the same client for at least a year, their ratings are usually done by the same person - which can be an awful idea, since it's extremely subjective and defeats the entire purpose of ongoing performance conversations (By the way, ratings are NOT shared with the employee throughout the year! You only get a composite "snapshot" at the very end, when it's too late)

I'm not a current employee anymore. I've got terminated without any prior warning to me or my counselor. They didn't provide any valid reason for the termination, they just said "because of your performance and this is our final decision". I told them that I would like to meet with all of them including my managers and counselor so they could provide a real and personal feedback about me. They responded "that won't be necessary, we already took a final decision ". I asked for detailed information of the "bad performance" they were referring and they told me "we don't have that information right now". They didn't care about my actual performance or about what my managers and counselor had to say about me. They just want me out without any valid reason. I did my work, I always completed my tasks on time and got involved in firm initiatives. I sent an email to the "Employee Lifecycle Events Specialist" asking for the details of my termination and they never responded. My counselor and my managers were shocked when I told them what happened, no one could believe it. Employees for the top management are just a number. They don't care if you are a hard worker, if they want you out they will terminate you without any hesitation. This was my seventh month in the company, they always say in all the meetings that the first year no one have to worry about getting in projects because we are getting known within the firm and that is normal that the utilization percent of everyone will be low. Even that I was always doing something while I was on the "bench", I was always busy with firm initiatives and providing productivity to the firm with my professional experience. I just wanted to share with everyone my situation so maybe someone from the firm care about it (I don't think so) and the current or future employees can be aware of.