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‘MANY STUDENTS ARE INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATED IF NOT DOWNRIGHT ANGRY’
Deloitte was named the No. 2 accounting firm to work for in 2021 by Vault, but has since sunk to 14th. Now its MBA hires are widely reporting having their 2023 start dates pushed back to early 2024.
One of the top global consulting firms has deferred start dates for its new MBA hires and others, in some cases until spring of 2024.
Many of the MBAs hired by Deloitte, one of the world’s biggest accounting and financial advisory firms, have been informed that their onboarding with the company will be delayed until January or February 2024, or in some cases later in the spring. This comes after some start dates were already pushed back from July to August.
Deloitte, which employs more than 100,000 globally, joins the MBB firms — McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain — in delaying new hire start dates this year. MBAs at other top firms, including Accenture and Ernst and Young, also report receiving deferments in the last three to four weeks, according to information provided to Poets&Quants and commentary on message boards at Reddit.
“Got a call from my recruiter letting me know that my start date has been delayed until January 2024 when I signed to start this August,” writes Reddit user jjtha11 in a thread titled “Delayed start date Advisory to from August to Jan 2024” under the sub-Reddit r/Deloitte. “Was offered a lump sum stipend. Was told it was happening to all commercial advisory folks with start dates in August. Not sure if firm wide or just my office. Not sure what my best move is.”
In another thread, titled “Start date deferred to February 2024,” Reddit user Ok-Researcher-7237 writes:
“Desperate for any and all advice here. Just graduated college with an accounting degree and was supposed to start full time in august in RFA Cyber. Got a call this week that my start date got pushed to end of Feb 2024. Was offered 12k stipend in exchange. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to still have a job and some money given to me but I’m freaking out at the thought of not having a full time job for the next 6 months as I had planned to move out and start my life.”
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/
