This website helped me out a great deal to securing a job and thought it might be useful to others to hear about my experiences so far with Deloitte.I started 3 months ago on the TI analyst programme. It is a 2 year programme, starting salary £31,000, 25 days holiday, £600 benefits. My reason for choosing Deloitte over the other consulting firms as I was made to feel wanted and felt Deloitte had a genuine care over recruitment. From application to job offer was less than a month, the partner involvement during the recruitment process was like no other and gave such a personable feel to the organisation. So was my decision to join Deoitte the correct one?So far I am I am hugely impressed by the company and the investment they put into their analyst. My training was about 8 weeks long in which we went to Holland, Ireland and London. The accommodation was all hugely impressive, 5 star hotels, silver service dining and copious amounts of wine and beer throughout the 8 weeks. Furthermore the training is led by the partners/directors/senior managers and by the end of the 8 weeks you have already built up a vast network of senior people Inc at least 10-15 partners. This is what impressed me the most, the time and investment the partners put into new analysts on top of client commitments. It is a genuine care that comes across and you can easily build up strong professional and social relationships with them. As part of the Deloitte TI programme you also sit ISEB exams towards a BSC diploma and while learning about thing such as business analysis, testing, databases, UML, Requirements engineering etc you are working towards a professional qualification which you should have achieved by end of the 2 year programme. The 5 exams during the training was hard work but the level of support to get you through these exams was second to none and again shows a massive sign of investment, as these courses and exams are over £1000 each to sit per analyst.Having finished the analyst induction programme I’m now away from London on my first client engagement. Life as an analyst involves lots of PowerPoint, excel, research and analysis and while it might not sound like much, the exposure and early responsibility is already way above my expectations. And I’m loving living off expenses! Life in 5 star hotels and 1st class rail travel makes those uni exams all worthwhile!! My work life balance has also been excellent so far, working avg 8:30 – 6.30.That’s a very quick run down of Deloitte experience so far. If you have any doubts about whether it is a good place to work, I can assure you I can only say positive things about it (So far!). There may be other companies who offer bigger salaries, better benefits but also be sure to research their training programme, culture etc but these things are worth so much more that a few extra £000, esp at analyst level. Any questions, comments, experiences I’d be interested to hear them!
