Pros

Provides good opportunities for career growth in both managerial and technical development
Better total benefits package
People are generally good to deal with, lots of bright ideas and very helpful
Lots of tools, methods, approaches that can help you accomplish tasks in a more efficient manner
Ideal for those who have extreme passion to learn and/or what can be described as 'workaholics'

Cons

If you're one of the "lucky" ones, you'll often have too much work to do that you can't fit in a normal 8-hour job, and there are times that you can actually have too much "on-top-of" work
New increased work week hours policy

Advice to Senior Management

Clients may be the source of revenue, but employees are the main assets that enable you to offer the kind of services they look for. Employees are pretty much customers as much as clients are. Happy employees = happy clients. They're people who have both strengths of value judgment and limitations, not some efficient, hard-set cogs of machines.

Pros

- a true global company
- proper systems and tools which are use across all locations
- good leadership program, developed leaders who are well rounded in Value Creation, Business Operation and People Development
- Energetic bunch of people with can do attitude

Cons

- Being in Enterprise Workforce meaning...limited career progression opportunity
- Leaders in EWF needs to fairly appraise & reward their teams and provide due recognition

Advice to Senior Management

Should re-evaluate the feedback process and the peer group definition for EWF.

Pros

Great launching pad for your career. Much better than going to grad school, and it pays better too. Joining this firm to start my career was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Cons

Suffice it to say, you're going to work some long hours at Accenture. That can be extremely exhausting and can wear even the most enthusiastic person down.

Advice to Senior Management

Accenture has always prided itself as a great place for women to work, but thats a load of BS if you ask me. Its a great place for single women, but god forbid you decide to have a family.

Pros

Accenture has a great company culture. They have an excellent presence in the community and looks great on a resume.

Cons

I found it easy to be overlooked and used on a project as a space filler. You have to fight to get real work to do in order to have a decent yearly review.

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize the resources and talent you have within the company. Otherwise, people will begin to build disdain towards the company.

Pros

If you're in the consulting workforce, you'll most likely never see the inside of an Accenture office, but instead be working at client sites, which could be almost anywhere. Not a bad scenario for fresh college grads who have no life yet and could use a housing and food budget subsidy. You might get sent to India for an outsourcing project, which could also be interesting.

Cons

Incredibly boring work for software developers. Compensation is below industry average. Very little training budget. If you're in software development, be prepared to use dusty and obsolete methodologies. Java is the new COBOL! Company does not value higher education. Leadership are all born-and-bred Accenture, most of them having arrived as analysts right after college. Accenture is well on their way to becoming an outsourcing juggernaut, so if you are disturbed by the idea that a 'high performance business' is one that sends every possible job to the third world, you might feel a little out of place.

Advice to Senior Management

Take responsibility for your own actions. All too often I see rank and file analysts and consultants bearing the brunt of bad decisions made by short-sighted managers who have little understanding of software development or company policies.

Pros

The business model was great. Accenture teaches you how to be a team player, how to deliver on a project and how to manage workplans

Cons

Annual Reviews are not realistic. Performance should be based on hard achivements NOT soft skills

Advice to Senior Management

Determine a better way to monitor performance for the employees

Pros

Accenture is a fabulous place to work if you have the perseverance to put up with the long hours and hard work. The people you work with on the Consulting side are passionate, intelligent, dedicated and hard working. The pay is fantastic. The company perks are great - expense card, hotels, apartments, training but beware the glamour that hides the dark side. The politics involved in getting Promoted ensure that you give work priority over your personal life. This is an Up or Out organisation no matter how they gloss it up. If you have the stamina to put up with the politics and hard work required for promotion then this is the place for you. If you are happy staying put then don't bother applying. The skills you take away from here are second to none - every other career will be a breeze after this.

Cons

-The company is changing with the introduction of the solutions workforce. Increasingly the work of the consulting analysts is being taken over by this part of the organisation where the pay and motivation is lower. This is not however being taken into account by the partnership team selling work and senior management creating project timelines. Result - Aggressive project timelines without the quality of team you would previously have expected and a very stressed consulting workforce.
- Poor senior management direction and support
Its not the same company as it was 5 years ago but still looks great on your cv.

Advice to Senior Management

Up your standard on the solutions side. Look to your consulting arm and re-energise them

Pros

- Ability to take PTO when needed
- Gain technical skills
- Great training programs at the St. Charles facility
- Make connections in a variety of offices

Cons

- Projects often go on much longer than you were told upfront
- Easy to get pigeonholed in specific area (offshoring, SAP, etc)

Advice to Senior Management

Work with your employees to ensure that their long-term happiness can be met when hiring them. If you know that a "four month engagement" may likely take over a year to complete, be frank with the consultant upfront.

Pros

- Good vacation time
- Nice people to work with
- Exposure to many industries
- Good perks...lots of employee discounts, get to keep frequent flier miles and hotel points

Cons

- Long hours
- Work can be really boring at times
- It's more important that you have billable hours than that you are building up a solid skill set
- Sometimes you have little say over which projects you are assigned to
- The feedback/review process is set up well, but having one bad project where you don't get along well with your manager can hold you back in terms of rankings and promotions
- Way to much emphasis on networking...it's more important who you know than what you know

Advice to Senior Management

Give more support to Analysts when they are assigned to their first few projects. If you are going to assign us to a community (ex. Oracle or SAP), make sure we are working on projects related to that community. Don't force analysts onto projects that they have no interest in, especially when they know what they are interested in and where they want to develop their skills.

Pros

There are lots and frequent changes.

Cons

You must adopt the changes and embrace it

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the stock price high.