Asking for help is a common and natural thing that everyone does. You need help immediately, so if you can help others help you, everyone wins. Getting help from others is a skill that can be learned and refined over time. This post is geared towards getting help with problems in software development and operations...
New Ways of Work in the times of COVID-19
Employee Engagement, Best Place To Work, Employee Happiness, wellbeing, work life balance, people & culture, life at deloitte, deloitte platform engineering, DPE, future of work, COVID-19, Remote Working
In these times of social distancing, being together as a team becomes progressively daunting. With more and more businesses adopting remote working, it is crucial to ensure that the morale stays high and team dynamics survive the distance. As such, innovation is the key to evolve and adapt to the new ways of (remote)...
Hairy Causes: A Movember to Remember
You may notice a trend during the month of November where lots of normally clean-shaven blokes are suddenly sporting (often embarrassingly hideous) attempts at growing a moustache. There’s a good chance that they are making a spectacle of themselves for a worthy cause. Over the past sixteen years, the Movember...
From the eyes of a graduate, how to make the most of your DPE experience!
Careers, work life balance, people & culture, life at deloitte, experience, Graduate experience, deloitte platform engineering, graduate
Being a consultant within Deloitte’s Platform Engineering (DPE) team is something that many of us aspire to be as technology professionals. Not only does it provide you with the opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest minds in this field, but it also allows you to develop and grow within a positive work...
Bootcamp Graduation Guiding Grads
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"If there is one piece of advice that you take from today, keep the relationships with the people you meet. Maintain them, because you never know when you may need to rely on them."
Above is a paraphrased quote from Managing Director,...
Azure Operate - The choice I made
Best Place To Work, Employee Happiness, Careers, Microsoft Azure, graduates, culture, people & culture, life at deloitte
Computer science is what I pursued at university. Yet, I somehow never believed I would actually be a developer. During my time at university I was involved with many social groups, which provided my initial exposure to management and leadership roles. It was this group involvement that in turn helped me to recognise...
Through a Fathers Eye - A Deloitte Dad Poem
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The Wake-Up Call
"Dha! Dha! Dha! Dha!" a cheeky smile and her beautiful eyes - This is my wake-up call.
I gaze across and I never imagined how much joy it could bring.
Her gorgeous miniature self. No alarms. No morning meeting rushes.
Notifications silenced.
My baby girl. This is my wake-up call.
We trade faces,...
'Little' things
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DPE – A different perspective
Deloitte Platform Engineering (DPE), as the name implies, encapsulates who we are in a nutshell – a highly skilled and agile engineering team (yes, a team of engineers) with the backing of a world-class firm modernising and delivering high-value solutions for our customers.
As shown in...
Back to the future
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A story of a mom who believed she would never return to work
I joined Deloitte Platform Engineering (DPE) in November 2018. This is my first job in sunny Australia. Having moved to Melbourne from London almost five years back, returning to work has been a daunting idea which turned out to be a surprisingly pleasant...