Accenture Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – The People are really Fantastic

Cons – None that I can think of

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time for more than a year

Pros – You are trusted to work hard and manage yourself. Everyone is driven. Results are much more important than hours.

Cons – Global teams expect fast responses out of hours. Work can be extremely stressful. Considerable travel & hours expected.

Advice to Senior Management – Aim to simplify the approvals bureaucracy - things have started to slow down.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Accenture full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good exposure to leading clients

Cons – too much of partying and lobbying

Advice to Senior Management – Should leave the partying culture behind

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Accenture part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fantastic people - talented, friendly, collaborative and motivated
Interesting, varied work - lots of scope to pursue your ambitions
Great clients
Meritocracy

Cons – Work/life balance can get out of control sometimes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – work, co-workers, clients - all great

Cons – travel - but not Accenture's fault

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Training and development, bright people, opportunities

Cons – poor work/life balance at times

Advice to Senior Management – Need to do more to ensure people live up to core values of company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Diverse projects and challenging environment

Cons – Lack of work life balance, 100% mobility expected and many days away from home.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time

Pros – Annual training budget allocated - can almost always go beyond this within reason

People are great

Great social/networking events

Cons – One you leave a project, you're not on anyone's radar, no matter how loyal you have been

Have to "play the game" to get ahead.

Current Employee – been working at Accenture full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – High calibre of staff in all projects experienced. Good salary

Cons – Processes to use driven down from the top. No freedom to think of new things.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Accenture full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - Plenty of opportunity to work in almost any industry
- Space to advance quickly if you fit the mold
- Generally good people that are fun to work with (to a certain level)

Cons – - Leadership are too numbers driven and have lost focus on people
- Culture of entrepreneurship has been replaced by bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management – Don't lose focus on the thing that made the company great - the people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend