>The people at Deloitte are not generally dumb unmotivated people.
You end up consulting at Deloitte when you can't get into MBB, any of the smaller boutique firms, strategy at big corporations etc. Accountants are an exception but they're only there to pad their resume before exiting to corporate in-house finance roles that lead to CFO positions.
Deloitte is to outsourced business consulting what Infosys is to outsourced software development.
I've found that the MBB > Big4 trope has largely disappeared (Look at comp at Partner and N-2 levels.)
MBB still has an edge for general management consulting, but I see demand dwindling, despite the annual occurrence of a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund paying $100M for a study to build a wind powered ice skating rink on top of a helicopter pad.
You end up consulting at Deloitte when you can't get into MBB, any of the smaller boutique firms, strategy at big corporations etc. Accountants are an exception but they're only there to pad their resume before exiting to corporate in-house finance roles that lead to CFO positions.
Deloitte is to outsourced business consulting what Infosys is to outsourced software development.