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Question for Deloitte employees globally: How many hours do you typically work per day?

From what I’ve observed, working 9–11 hours a day, sometimes even 12, seems pretty common at Deloitte USI.
I’m curious to hear from people working at Deloitte US, particularly in the US. Are the working hours and workload similar across the firm, or is there a significant difference?
I’m trying to understand whether this is a global Deloitte work culture issue or whether employees in USI are expected to put in longer hours because of the offshore model. Are we essentially being treated as cheaper labour, or is this just how things work across Deloitte worldwide?
Would love to hear about your actual day-to-day experiences!

It does not appear I will make my utilization goal of 85%. I’ve rolled off my project. If I don’t get staffed before this performance period ends I will end up at 83%. Does anyone know if this will put me below in utilization metrics for the year end review?

Its been more than one week since I gave my hirevue, am i cooked?

Is there anyone who has awarded when you were staff 1?

What was the award for?

Now that it’s been some time since comp statements have come out, what’s the typical annual raise (percentage) and bonus like within EFA?

Hello

I am currently interviewing for an intern position for the GPS Summer scholar program. I have a second round interview scheduled this next week. I saw a posting for a different role, which aligns with my experience just as well.

I was wondering, if I send in my application to this new position, will that in any way affect my standing in the position I am currently interviewing for? Thank you

Hi everyone!

I’ve been shortlisted through my college for the Deloitte Analyst role under EAD Engineering – PDI (Platform Development and Integration, if that’s the correct expansion) for the 2027 batch.

According to the information shared with us, the internship structure is:

• January–June 2027: Voluntary virtual internship
• July–December 2027: Mandatory in-person internship
• Stipend mentioned in the compensation sheet: ₹25,000 per month
• Full-time conversion: Based on training and performance

I have a couple of questions for people who have joined Deloitte through a similar campus hiring process:

1. Is the ₹25,000 monthly stipend paid during the voluntary virtual internship as well, or does it apply only to the mandatory in-person internship?
2. What kind of work or training can a fresher expect during the first few months of the virtual internship?
3. What technologies or skills would you recommend learning before joining this role? I’m particularly interested in knowing which technologies are actually used in the PDI team.
4. Is there anything else I should know or prepare for before starting the internship?

I’d really appreciate insights from people who have gone through this process, especially recent campus hires.

Thanks in advance!

I recently completed a HireVue interview with Deloitte and have been waiting for a response for about two weeks.

I received the invitation to do the HireVue on September 25th, completed it September 26th, and sent a follow up email yesterday on October 9th to no avail.

A colleague of mine applied for the same position and got an invitation for final round interviews on October 5th.

On the workday portal, it still says Review in Progress.

Has anyone else had a similar experience and know if I should keep waiting for a follow up?

Or is this basically a sign that I should stop wondering and take the rejection?

Apologies if this is hasty to ask, any info is appreciated :)

Honestly, I don't even know what to write here. I just want to say that no job has ever made me feel so stupid in my life. I can't make any progress—seriously, none at all—not even on a single control without a prior-year reference. The only thing I know how to do is document using the PY as a reference.

I joined as a digital risk consultant thinking I would at least know something about IT audit, since I was an intern for 10 months at KPMG in risk advisory. But I only handled one client during my entire time there, and I documented well simply because that client had four years of prior-year references to follow.

I moved to Deloitte because there were no open positions at KPMG, and here I said I had experience in internal IT SOX. So they put me on a mining project with four subsidiaries and very similar controls across them, but everything is just so damn hard. I don't know how to document; I honestly don't, my mind just goes completely blank. I always ask my senior, but she is way busier than I am with project workload. She knows I have some experience, but everything is so completely different here. At KPMG we only did TOD and TOE, and everything was handed to me on a silver platter. They would hand me the evidence and say, 'document this.' Here, obviously, I have to review the evidence requests they upload and all that. I know the workplans help to an extent, but most of the controls don't match the workplan and are like a mix of a little bit of everything.

I am beyond stressed. Every single day I break down crying like an idiot out of pure frustration. It's even worse when they explain things to me—at first glance, I understand everything, but the moment I try to put it into the working paper, nothing comes out, everything is wrong. Any suggestions other than quitting? I have never felt so sad and useless in my life.

And I know it sounds like an exaggerated tragedy, but I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I told my senior that I'm blocked, but she can never take a call with me and I get it. And no, I doubt my manager would say anything to the only senior she's worked with for 5 years after so much turnover. Worst of all, in 10 days I hit the 2-month mark, and by the third month, the probation period ends.

I don't want to give up after typing all this crap crying from the office bathroom, but please, I need some advice on how to actually understand how to document... I read the workplans and nothing seems to work.

Heard people got fired at DU this week. True or nah?

Been at Deloitte about a year in consulting and I am worn down. I'll admit I was told workload would be heavy so I came in ready for long hours and a lot of deliverables. What they did not describe is what heavy actually means here and it is not more of one job. It is three jobs at once with nobody really telling you which one you are supposed to be doing other than this has to get done for the client.

Technically I have one role but in reality I am a architect, project manager and the developer all at the same time. I start the morning with status updates, spend the morning who gave updates that don't make sense or didn't give them. The afternoon is spent designing whatever solution and writing the code myself in the afternoon because that was supposed to be my actual job. I absolutely hate that we just generate requirements of thin air on old school conference calls and I have no idea how any one functions without recordings or teams transcripts.

The part I hate the most is nobody mentioned during hiring that project teams I work with are are in India and Ireland so my day starts when theirs is already almost over. That puts me waking up at 5:30 AM and I am expected to be sharp from the first call. The only way to survive that would be logging off early to recover. I cannot do that either since the firm contribution hours still need to get hit on top of client work. Normally, I'd go after for a drink but I'm too tired, need to sleep so I can wake up earlier the next day. Supposedly, this is suppose to be at team effort too and everytime I've tried get my skip or others involved they show up maybe once or twice then tell me they're stuck on client work.

Anyone else in the same boat? Does this get better or is this just the job?

Hi everyone,

I joined the firm about two weeks ago and was recently staffed on my first billable project. However, the client has a very tight budget, and I was told by the senior manager that only the actual time spent working on deliverables should be charged to the project.

Since joining, I’ve been charging most of my time to training/onboarding codes. Even though I’m now staffed, I can only bill around 2 hours a day to this project. My coach is currently on vacation, and it’s just the senior manager and me working on it. The senior manager is also quite busy, so responses can sometimes be slow.

As a result, I’ve spent quite a bit of time familiarizing myself with the project and trying to understand the deliverables without always having clear expectations or direction. At the end of the day, though, only a small portion of that time ends up being billable. Seeing this on my timesheet has made me a little concerned about what my utilization will look like.

I’ve also been having coffee chats with people across the team and letting them know that I’m available to help with other projects, but so far there don’t seem to be many opportunities.

For those who have been through A1 in Canada, how important is utilization during your first year? I’m hoping to stay on track for promotion next year, and our utilization target is around 75–85%, which currently feels pretty difficult to achieve given the amount of work available.

My main goal is to perform well, learn as much as possible, and progress normally. I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have been in a similar situation, especially during their first few months at the firm.

Hi everyone joined Deloitte in 2022 so I would say right when we were getting out of COVID. I have been curious to hear from people who were here before COVID and get some insight on how culture has changed? Also not only the culture but work wise as well?

The reason I ask this as well is I have been remote for all 4 years thus far with some in person attendance sprinkled throughout (I.e, monthly project in person weeks, project kick offs, local events.) but I feel like I have not created my own community and I don’t know if that is majority of everyone’s experience especially hired during COVID times or just me.

While I’m in the cyber practice myself would love to hear perspectives from all areas of the business.

Anyone heard back from Deloitte Canada for Tech & Transformation – Cyber – Enterprise Security?

Applied a while ago 09/13 and still haven’t gotten an interview invite 💀

At this point, am I cooked, or are they just moving super slow this year?

Curious if anyone else applied and what your status is rn.

Hi there,

I’m applying for a commercial side role, I’ve already had 2 interviews (screening/recruiting, even though the first guy said there would only be 3 total), and that I will hear next week about if the hiring manager wants to set a time. 2 technical interviews, and then one with the partner.

Do they always take it weeks at a time in between interviews? Why is that the case? Could they do multiple interviews in a week?

Also, I was told no actual technical skills would be tested or shown during these meetings, only discussing technical specs (this is a hands on AI deployment role, I have build many dozens of AI products by hand). The interviewer/recruiter really didn’t seem to have any idea what she was even talking about, congratulating having done 70 projects with AI but saying she wasn’t sure if I had AI experience?

Anyways, given an estimated 3 more weeks to interview, plus another 3 more weeks for background check, plus maybe an extra delay for the offer letter, am I seriously going to not get this process done (if accepted and not rejected for not meeting demographic specs) until Thanksgiving/end of November? I started this process 3 weeks ago. 9-10 weeks to onboard is insane. Is the process ever shorter?

Is it always this long? I recall it being maybe 3-4 weeks and then 2 weeks for verification after the offer letter. Is this standard or is this just an upper bound? Who exactly has the time to cross their fingers and pray they’ll land the just for 10 weeks

And also, hate to ask, but how prominent is DEI a factor in decisions these days? How prominent is gatekeeping people with demonstrable skills (yes I know how it sounds but I have 70+ live projects anyone can go look at)? I keep hearing horror stories on this Reddit so I just want to know the honest good bad and ugly

Thank you