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As cutthroat as it is, I feel like I've been prepared better than anywhere else the past 3 years out of undergrad. It can suck at times but it is like tough love, it will ultimately make you a better professional.
Have worked at Deloitte, McKinsey, and BCG. I'd say Deloitte is by far the most toxically competitive. McK/BCG folks are highly self-motivated (read insecure) but also very collaborative -- especially at BCG (in my experience)
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I can't imagine a place being more cutthroat than Deloitte.
I've seen partners stab each other in the face
It's not about stabbing each other, it's just about the level of competition and expectations. No matter how much you do, how many initiatives you are involved in, or how many hours you put at your client, somebody is always willing to do more. More than anything, expectations from management are intense to the point that they are unreasonable. You may spend 12 hours working on something and stay up until 2am, then show it to the senior manager and he/she will just find any flaws possible (why is the font 12 point on slide 6 and 13 point on slide 11?), while showing no appreciation for your work. It's not done on purpose and it leads to high quality deliverables but it's demoralizing at times.
Deloitte by far has the worst culture of the big 4. x💯 in NYC
There's a reason Deloitte is consistently ranked right behind MBB and a huge landing destination for top MBA grads.
^ I will never work for Deloitte
@KPMG1 I'm sure your additional years of experience didn't have anything to do with it. 🙃
^sums up my experience exactly
Deloitte has the worst culture. low perfomers get shot down without a 2nd chance and usually don't make it after a year. high performers threaten insecure colleagues and get sabotaged/back stabbed. While leaders at Deloitte are great in general, they get territorial and treat practices like its the mafia...you could get in but don't even think you could ever leave without repercussions. Accenture is a close 2nd worst.
I think it's self-serving. Experienced hires are thrown to the wolves. BAs and consultants work themselves to death on PRD (which is really a poor use of time), creating an unnecessary competitive culture. Favoritism runs rampant. Part of it is the partnership model - PPDs really care about their piece of the pie but aren't incentivized to care about people development. Just an overall caddy culture - I didn't think twice when I had an opportunity to leave the firm
Director1, I'm new to Deloitte and these points are a bit concerning to me
A lot of the points above on Deloitte's culture are spot on... but I don't think there pervasive "backstabbing" as described above. It just takes an immense amount of top quality work to be regarded as a high performer (not to mention brand-building & luck in your interactions top leadership to get from Tier "1B" to Tier "1A"). You can still craft yourself to be perceived as a "no-bullshit-firm-initiatives; client-service focused; doesn't want to be bothered with happy hours" practitioner. Once your reputation is built, things all of the sudden become much less scary (and even approach enjoyable on rare occasion)
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First year at Deloitte and yes it's a lot of work, but have worked with great teams and never felt the super competitiveness. Maybe DD is a bit different
Definitely Deloitte. Experienced hire here, limited support for non-campus hires. Strong favoritism towards analysts that grew up in the firm and are expert note takers and slide makers.
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When I was at Deloitte, had "friends" in my BA class claim credit for work I did. (As in, said that they had a title they did not, so, not ambiguous.) I didn't find out till after annual review when my counselor was like "yeah, but four of you shared that role." I was PISSED.