Not all that... - Analyst Accenture Employee Review

2.0
18 Aug 2008
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Pros

Lots of experience in a short period of time. I had worked for 5 clients, in 3 industries, 3 headquarters, within two and a half years. Although working for just Accenture, I had basically gone through 5 completely different jobs. So it was a great experience of breadth and an overview in general of what the corporate world can hold. Diversity is huge within Accenture, especially as it grows its offshoring to India and continuing to grow in China. I've also seen many women in manager/sr. manager positions, many people straight out of college, and a myriad of those who have been in specific industries that really help your team in various scenarios depending on which industry your working in. It is a roller-coaster place to work, then you need to ask yourself if you like roller-coasters or not...

Cons

Long long hours, you are expected to work above and beyond in order to get into that top tier of top performers. Even if you are stellar, they will find a performance feedback point. They boast about performance feedback, but when you get into your career 2+ years, you start to realize it is more or less cut-throat against your colleagues / peers. Ultimately, at the end, you are all competing against each other. I mentioned breadth of experience as a strong point, however I would have to say it is a downside as well because as you continue to do so many things in different industries / clients, you are unable to grasp a depth of knowledge or experience in any one place as you are working 1-3-6-9-12 months at a time per engagement, it is difficult to stick with one specialization since Accenture is solely driven by business need, you could be an accounting major in doing IT Programming. Accenture is always in the process of restructuring, it is never the same for any 6 month period, it is an ongoing juggernaut.

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5.0
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Great way to get experience working with social media companies, learned a lot about politics, news, advertising, social media company, marketing, job postings and tech sales. In the project I was part of I learned a lot about the world. Most of my bosses were genuinely amazing but I did cycle through a good few. You learn a lot about working with fortune 100 clients. The consultants are nice to work with. You get experience training people, working with a wide variety of teams. Pretty good pay for my experience at the time, the hiring team is very nice and the hiring process was easy. Also I was given a therapist due to the nature of the work. Also got an hour of paid wellness, which was nice but I think that just extended the workday by one hour for no real reason. It does feel like important and purposeful work.

Cons

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5.0
21 Sept 2015
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Pros

There are a lot of pros working for Accenutre. They have great career opportunities, a never ending supply of interesting work, competitive compensation, wonderful benefits, great people, wonderful training programs, a tremendous number of brilliant professionals in their fields ready to help, and great core values.

Cons

This is not an opportunity for those that do not want to work. At Accenture everyone has a load of work to do and often times under very tight customer time lines. It is a challenge that I enjoy but many might find it stressful.

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