Accenture Reviews in El Segundo, CA

Pros

Great people, exciting work, strong leadership and opportunties for growth. Accenture has been a great place to work for my 10+ years with the firm. I would strongly recommend Accenture to anyone who wants a great job.

Cons

Work/Life Balance is hard to balance with out of town projects sometimes anywhere in the world.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice at this time.

Pros

- You get to sample out tons of companies and industries
- Travel (if/when you're young)
- 25 vacation days a year

Cons

- Internal staffing group is incompetent
- Senior managers force you to ghost hours
- Travel (after 1 year of working)
- End up working in storage closets at client site
- Partners under sell projects and therefore understaff projects to save on costs
- Many of the employees are dishonest towards the client

Advice to Senior Management

- Have more control over the client and set contractual scope on a project

Pros

* Chance to travel
* Exposure to large ERP implementations
* Great resume builder
* Great place to build or widen technical expertise

Cons

* Difficult to attend training seminars
* Hit or miss talent
* Lower than average salary
* Projects staffed with individuals with very little expertise, but packed as a SME

Advice to Senior Management

* Further develop local model
* Offer meaningful training to employees, and make easily accessible
* Better compensation
* Promote work-life balance

Pros

knowledge management, talented people, good benefits

Cons

pay
promotion
inability to learn additional technology or process area. sucked into specific domain

Advice to Senior Management

great place to work. tons of opportunities
people have become too specialized