Accenture Reviews

Pros

* Ability to determine your own career and which projects / clients to tackle
* Good managers make sure you don't get burnt out
* 5 weeks of vacation
* Good benefits
* Ability to work from home Fridays

Cons

* Some days are longer than 16 hours
* Upper management allows clients to determine work direction instead of Accenture promoting best practices.
* Ghosting hours - the only example of when Accenture doesn't always live by its values
* Interview process can take 3 months.

Pros

Vast pool of knowledge and various domains to work in.

Cons

Performance ratings and CTC structure

Advice to Senior Management

provide better perks in form of bonus and CTC structure.

Pros

Great mentor program with managers willing to invest time in you
Competitive pay and benefits

Cons

Very structured/hierarchical, hard to fast track

Pros

- Best people and talent
- Leadership focused on career development
- Client focused attitude
- Global opportunities
- Nice training opportunities

Cons

- Promotion opportunities are not as good as the past
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Pros

really smart people
good pay
respect for the individual
engaging work

Cons

pace of the work
travel
less focus on true management consulting over time

Advice to Senior Management

Keep focus on balancing work and life -- keep promoting women into senior leadership positions

Pros

Excellent PTO, Training and career advancement opportunities, Friendly team to work with, transparent corporate policies, Stock purchase option for all employees.

Cons

Too rapid growth in San antonio that leads to confusion and congestion. Not enough facilities in the delivery center. Small cubicles

Pros

Accenture is a good company to start out at. There are decent opportunities for advancement, ok pay, and clients to work at.

Cons

Too many long hours and nights, be prepared to work weekends, partners and senior management are in accessible, you have to find your own jobs

Advice to Senior Management

There is too much turnover in this company for any type of knowledge capital to be retained. Try to make an effort to keep your good employees.

Pros

Some projects are great - good exposure to clients. Large, global company mean that you get exposure to proven processes and methodolodies.

Cons

Once you are on a project you are stuck and senior management has a death grip on you- easier to find a job outside of the firm than to find new projects from within the firm.

Advice to Senior Management

More internal transfer opportunuties to find roles at multiple clients rather than permanently being stuck with one client and not being able to find new roles

Pros

Great potential to growth
Great for place to start off with for entry level.
Work hard, play hard mentality
Social peers

Cons

Employee Benefits should be improved.
Salary needs to be more competitive.
Networking is a must to get you where you wanted to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide the tools your employee need, like a laptop or something.
Provide an opportunities to the worker bee to explain them self before and after the PMP review prior to making decision on the performance review.

Pros

Training, work environment, opportunities, community

Cons

Low Compensation, location, heavy work load