Accenture Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

Very flexible workplace designed around travel if you end up in the MC area. If you enjoy gathering points and miles then a consulting job is for you. Great exposure to sr. management internally and to clients on projects.

Cons

Some projects can require long work hours but this is generally not the norm (at least most of the time). Huge company so exposure to the high levels of management are not common but they do constantly communicate to all work forces.

Pros

The People, the opportunities to grow and the many events organized for both the younger and the more seasoned employees

Cons

Accenture's core business is systems implementations, so even if you are working in Management Consulting, you will work on a system implementation. This is absolutely true for the change management area. So if you don't like systems implementations (SAP, Oracle, etc), don't go to Accentuer, If this is what you do best, make sure that you join Accenture. Than it is the best company to work for.

If you are assigned to the Boston office, network with the core team there and you will have a great time with access to great events that Accenture sponsors, or receives free tickets for.

Advice to Senior Management

Make clear during the interview process that system implementation is your core product and that getting a role outside that area is pretty tough for a recent joiner.

Pros

Good Work culture at Accenture

Cons

Hectic work hours at Accenture

Advice to Senior Management

No Advice to Managetment at Accenture

Pros

Lots of opportunity to move within Accenture & gain experience if you are flexible enough to travel. less flexible if need to be local

Cons

Consulting gigs require travel. Local gigs are much less dynamic for Services group. Skills & work day experience becomes stale. It's a trade off for the stability of not travelling.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

great experience. fast pace and changing job description.

Cons

too much travel. Work hours very long.

Advice to Senior Management

allow more personal direction in career path.

Pros

it's a very fast paced work enviornment. They put new analysts through a LOT of training which is nice and gives you a good network going into your first role. You will travel quite a bit so it's a great opportunity to see new cities while you are still young and without a family yet.

Cons

Again, since you travel quite often I would say a con is that you probably wouldn't be as willing to have this lifestyle once you are married and with kids.

Advice to Senior Management

I think an orientation session to the specific group you are deployed to you would be nice. While you go through orientation / training with all analysts you probably won't even meet 1 who is in the same group as you (or at least I didn't).

Pros

- great codification of change management, systems integration and outsourcing practices
- plethora of do-it-yourself training, CBTs, knowledge sharing e.t.c.
- good way to jump start an information technology career
- excellent reputation for consistent delivery of large change management rollouts, ERP implementations and outsourcing initiatives for behemoth clients
- fun hardworking people

Cons

- Compensation, particularly the meager bonus component, is below that of management consulting firms and also incongruent with the hours involved
- Client deliverables sometimes -usually the second time around- felt overly standardized boring

Advice to Senior Management

-Bonus compensation, especially for high performers, really needs to be more competitive
-Firm should really focus on recruiting more folks with advanced degrees
-Firm can really do more to leverage systems integration and outsourcing client relationships to grow their management consulting practice. If leadership cannot accomplish this under one umbrella then the firm should divest the strategy consulting arm. After speaking with the global head of strategy I was left with the impression that the group has no clear strategy for growth. A little bit of leveraging of the IT reputation here and a little bit of differentiation there. Really? This result in a degree of tension between the two factions, especially at the junior level, that many time hurts the firm's overall brand in the eyes of employees and clients.

Pros

Compensation. Enjoyment/Challenging work. Benefits. PTO. Flexibility.

Cons

Algorithm used to determine compensation. No choice of first project more centered on "what accenture wants"

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Great learning, fast growth, good benefits. You can grow pretty fast with the firm if you are willing to make personal sacrifices.

Cons

High burn rate, travel sucks, you have to have a mentor and be in the "network" to be successful. If you are alone, you will be lost.

Advice to Senior Management

High burn rate, travel sucks, you have to have a mentor and be in the "network" to be successful. If you are alone, you will be lost.

Pros

Great experience: you learn a lot in a short period. You are given significant responsibility once your immediate project manager has confidence in you, and it's up to you to build from there. The work you do is relevant and more concrete than what you'd find at many other consulting firms, although you initially have little say in which projects you undertake (and once you do, you may be specialized in an area you would not have initially pursued). It's a good name for a resume. People are generally very smart and amiable, and the atmosphere is collaborative.

Cons

Burnout: since the recession, hours have noticeably increased and the job has gone from intensive to overwhelming. You don't want to calculate your implied hourly wage. You get significant PTO, but many individuals struggle to take time off and only do so once they've 'maxed out' and will lose it at the end of the year. Work-life balance, in summary, is atrocious. I know several senior people who have missed the birth of children to put out project 'fires', and personally, I am expected to be available and checking email 24x7 (it's the first thing I do in the morning and last thing I do at night, including weekends). Also, the annual review process leaves something to be desired; tenure sometimes outweighs merit in promotion decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Accenture is a factory, but there are still benefits to keeping people around for long periods.