Accenture Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – Agressive work schedule. You can pretty much learn about any thing you want to, your managers are more than willing to give you extra work :)

Flexibility - You have all the flexibility in the world as long as the job is getting done. Work from home, weekdays off for weekends, flex-fly program - I can fly to any city every other weekend, i have to pay the taxes though.

Great place to improve confidence - caeful with this one, if you are not agressive then it might fie back. I get to be on a lot of client facing roles because I'm confident, well-informed and agressive. Another dude treats it just as a job and the job treats him just like another dude.

Cons – Pay, i can get atleast a 40% increment somewhere else but I love working here too much, mostly because of all the flexibility.

Performace reviews - Only thing that matters is reviews, period. Only person who has say in your reviews is your Manager. So suck up to him/her as much as you can, use your people skills. You can be the hardest worker but that doesn't matter,almost everyone who's at accenture for over two years is.

Only thing while picking up a project that I see is who my manager is and how supportive he is. If I realize that he's not going to give me excellent ratings, I try and get out of that gig at god speed.

Advice to Senior Management – Your performance system sucks. It basically bases it on Manager's evaluation but "who will guard the guards". If my manager and I are best of buddies, goodbye Mr. Preformer - I'm getting your promotion.

Your Sr. Managers and above are over paid and analysts are under paid.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Accenture

Pros – Name recognition, global scope, good compensation, many different practice areas and generally competent leadership

Cons – Huge size, rigid promotion schedule, lack of choice of practice area, holier-than-thou leadership and tendancy to turn decent human beings into programmed robotic douchebags

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees with respect and allow them to pursue their practice area of choice. If you are a pre-IPO partner, just take your millions and retire already...you're not proving anything to anyone who gives a damn.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – Within strategy consulting, you'll meet a lot of truly brilliant people who are great to work. The benefits are good, and the perks are awesome if you like to travel--think lots of hotel points, airline points, and flying wherever you please on the weekends.

Cons – Accenture is a huge company with around 300,000 employees. If you find a corporate process or program to be annoying you will be hard pressed to find a solution since it's always "above someone's head."

Advice to Senior Management – Find a way to take responsibility for how you run the business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – Career opportunuties are few here.

Cons – Bad work life balance is not heavily supportedd.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more honest about how high-level decisions are made

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – Reputation of the employer. Lots of the opportunities to learn.

Cons – Irregardless of what management say, your project assignment could easily turn into sweat shop.
Carefully monitor the pace of your growth in the company. If you stuck at level for too long it means you should consider the new job somewhere else... Unless you are satisfied with your current status.

Advice to Senior Management – Be objective and fair in recognizing people's accomplishments. Try to avoid favouritism. I guess this statement will be true for most other companies.

Former Employee – worked at Accenture

Pros – Great for your resume and the chance to work for many Fortune 500 companies. They do honor work/life balance like working from home from time to time. This place is for younger folks that need experience out of University.

Cons – The tasks at hand are very time consuming and you are expected to perform miracles on a daily basis. Expect to work many hours and not get credited for all the time you put in. The time management systems are horrible and require constant micro-managing of your hourly activities.

Advice to Senior Management – For Accenture Learning- Get rid of the factory model of working and time management systems.

Former Employee – worked at Accenture

Pros – Value add to your resume. Good place to start your career. Not sure about experienced hires at Manager, Senior Manager level. Good training and career oppurtunities. But they seem to promote people based on months at level and hence you can see really inexperienced folks at Manager, SM level.

Cons – You land projects based on your network within the company and it is difficult to get into the old boys club if you are an experienced hire. Inside the firm your past external job experiences are not valued.

Advice to Senior Management – Should do a better job of integrating the experienced hires. HR should do a better job of finding and placing candidates in projects. The laddering and annual review process should be more transparent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Accenture

Pros – Accenture is consistently ranked as one of the best places to work. It made the Forbes list this year, and has been on the "Working Mother" list for several years. The c-suite seems to know what they are doing.

Cons – Outside of the C-suite, a lot of the executives (formally known as partners) are still stuck in the old Andersen Consulting partnership mentality. They are too willing to sacrifice quality in the name of cost. The outsourcing practice, in particular, is obsessed with offshoring, even when that approach has shown repeatedly that quality suffers. When done well, it's fantastic, but when done on the cheap, it's a recipe for disaster.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't discount your US workforce. They may cost more than the folks in India, but the creativity and problem-solving skills are world-class. Get out of the way, and give them the tools they need. You'll find that quality will go up and costs will go down. Insisting on cost reductions first, however, just means that you'll start a downward spiral of quality.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Accenture

Pros – If you land in the right projects (carefully planned, big SAP projects) you may have the opportunity to acquire good knowledge which could be important for future career moves. The intranet system is good in terms of documentation. The knowledge sharing in the SAP practice is very good.

Cons – Bad work / life balance in Consulting area, terrible if the project was badly planned or, worst, squeezed in time because the manager expects you to work 10 - 12 hours. Pay is not at all good given the amount of time you work. Some promotions are purely political and, again, it's a question of luck, depending on who you are working with.

Advice to Senior Management – .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Accenture

Pros – Brand is valuable to have on your resume; Good place to get exposure to a variety of industries; If you don't have a family, it's a great place to take advantage of travel opportunities. Very flexible work hours. Lots of opportunities to pursue unique experiences at work. Great vacation - 25 days.

Cons – No work-life balance; Very subjective review process; Leaders often take advantage of hard workers and compensation will not match effort; Will often require people to take on more responsibility while not promoting the or raising their salaries. Very little, if any, compromise on project work.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote people according to the level of responsibility they are given - not according to time.