Where does Deloitte hire from? Those people are routinely the absolute worst at everything.
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I have worked with the big 4 as a contractor and the answer to your question is due to the certifications they require most of the people are better at taking tests than doing the job and are more skilled at rote memorization than problem solving.
That is one of the biggest reason I look at experience and ask situational questions as opposed to looking at their certs. The number of people with an impressive amount of certs but nothing more than rote memorization is insane. The moment you ask them how to apply it, they fall apart.
Experience has one of the lowest predictive validity out of all job selection criteria. Situational judgement is fine but I'd suggest pairing it with structural behavioral interview and job knowledge as a replacement for experience https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-17327-001
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This isn't Australia
A college friend interned with delloite years ago, but the company he was auditing hired him.
You know how all employers have talent pools? Think of those applicants as being in a barrel and you can scoop out a prospective applicant pretty easily. Regular companies do this no problem.
Now Deloitte, being more profit focused company looks at that and says "There's obviously a better and cheaper way to do this, we're Deloitte, we know how to save cost and deliver"
They have discovered that if you go all the way to the bottom of the barrel, almost no one can extract the useless hard fibrous bottom. Deloitte broke the mold here, they exclusively extract the bottom, each applicant making the talent pool slightly larger for regular companies. Chewing the fibers into a grotesque cud-like mass that is impervious to all possible methods of digestion known to corporate kind.
They have learned to extract and refine so much of the bottom that in 2021 they ran out! They hit the very floor the barrel was placed on. Deloitte not to out do themselves thought "Hey, we did so well with the whole useless bottom thing, our clients literally can't get away. What if we tried to extract the literal floor itself? There's no end to it, we can extract it endlessly, forever!"
This method of extraction, gave Deloitte an ace in the hole, there's no possible way for another corporation to acquire talent in this manner! The quality of candidate here can't be overstated, they literally are chunks of the literal bedrock of society that produce work that would make a Jr vibe coder's AI segfault just by parsing it.
Deloitte has evolved into a parasite that sucks the life force from their clients and provides products that endlessly lose them money. Their crown jewel is literally having the worse possible employees that could provide a "working" implementation of what was requested by their client.
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I've literally had to clean up Deloitte's messes when their clients don't understand why the provided software doesn't work. I've seen literal grade schoolers who can write more competent applications.
In my experience being audited as an actuarie by the big 4 (in Brazil), KPMG is the best, love their work, Delloite is ok, no complaints, EY and PWC are fucking clowns that have no idea what are they doing, literally had to teach them how claims develops and that claims that are paid on the same month they're open didn't generate reserves and wouldn't be found on the reserves database.
Anyone straight out of Oxbridge or the Ivy League basically.
One of the Reddit subs I miss the most is r/Accounting. I am not an accountant but the memes were top tier and the level of corporate cynicism was completely relatable.
Same could be said about Accenture too.
Fuck Accenture.
And HCL, Cognizant, Candor, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs +495 more