Serious question - are consultants at Deloitte generally as arrogant about firm status/talent as they seem on this app? Got a job offer but honestly worried about culture

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Some people are great, personable, and Intelligent. Other people specifically those that grew up in the firm. Drink the coolaid like no other....... and believe Deloitte is #1 at anything and everything and aren’t afraid to say it

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Ms in GPS can range from 125ish to 175 - the latter is rare

This is a difficult question to answer since every project I was on was so different. Some I liked the people, and some I couldn’t stand. But yes, S&O does over-index on more outgoing, less nerdy, arguably more fratty personalities than McK/BCG but more type A than the rest of the big 4.

Across Deloitte, their are other structural issues in the performance review system that lead to culture problems (lack of upward feedback can lead to some horrible managers, scatterplots to reduce you down to a dot, utilization is heavily emphasized, PTO counts against utilization, and more). But I don’t think arrogance is particularly bad compared to other consulting firms and is played way up on this app.

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Came from P, stronger talent imo and definitely more serious but I've enjoyed the change

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At last some valid query about D. My 2 cents - had been with the firm for 4 years. Met some great leaders but other mostly were arrogant. Culture was not that great. All egoist people and hated the culture.

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I fell sideways into Deloitte not knowing a thing about the consulting world (experienced hire from another industry with a decade of experience) and have largely been very impressed with the compassion and humility/self-awareness of everyone I’ve come into contact with in the last two years. Every Harvard reference makes me cringe hard, and I’ve met maybe a dozen folks out of hundreds who talk like that. It also depends on practice- far less likely to find that in mission-driven practices than say, M&A or finance. I think the percentage of douchey people is no worse than other firms, but unfortunately that one metric/factoid is so easy for folks to hang on that it gets used like a freaking invincibility cloak

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Meh the practice I’m in really only takes experienced hires which means it’s a lot less pretentious MBA hires and a lot more adults who actually know things

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Sometimes arrogance is just a cloak to cover up deep rooted insecurity

Every person that was an awful team member during undergrad group projects ended up going to Deloitte. They always fashioned themselves as the person who "orchestrated" rather than someone that actually did the work. From what I have observed, that behavior did not change once they got to Deloitte.

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Came in as an experienced hire SM two years ago. 16 years in tech consulting - never worked industry. So far best culture and opportunities to make an impact at clients. Most people have been great to work with Came from a toxic IBM culture.

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IBM 2 nope. Guess there’s more than 1 disgruntled IBM AP at D :)

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Seems to be true but not sure why. On a current project where there are a bunch of Deloitte consultants and most of them are no more status monkeys.

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Everyone ive worked with on my teams over the last 3 years has been very down to earth. There are assholes at any company. Build your network with the good ones, we stick together.

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In my experience they were extremely arrogant and knew less than even people at mid tier industry firms. My advice would be to stay on top of your craft and not even bother joining them if it isn’t S&O.

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Hi, I worked at PwC and I work at Deloitte now.

Deloitte is definitely more arrogant to outsiders, but once you are in that truly treat people pretty well. Of course things differ largely in both firms though

I’ve met some seriously cool people, as well as a few I was happy to part ways with. Overall good people.

Lol I hope not

In my experience, not at all. I'm in the Cloud Engineering side though. Could be more of a thing in other areas.

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