Accenture Reviews in Florham Park, NJ

Pros

1. Fantastic leadership talent and very smart people all around
2. Tremendous training at all levels including partners - they have a full fledged University near Chicago IL with 5 star dining facilities.
3. You are actually penalized if you don't complete trainings on time !! a great way to ensure employees take full benefits of their billion dollar annual training spend.
4. an inherent sense of deep pride in employees onsite/offshore
5. Absolutely no comaprison with offshore pureplays (where I worked before) on brand, processes, comp and talent

Cons

1. Large global firm but very well managed
2. Processes are "designed" to engage and win large complex deals so takes some time to engineer them downwards for smaller deals but can be done with some effort/learning
3. Very difficult to work for pureplays after working here. Extremely choosy employer.

Advice to Senior Management

More networking events with senior management would help better integration
More Senior Executive /Partner promotions a must to retain talent.

Pros

Great people, interesting projects, good corporate culture. It is a good place to work overall. It's especially a good place to start a career since the name and brand of Accenture is so widely known. I don't work there anymore but people still KNOW who Accenture is if I mention the company.

Cons

Working for Solutions, I'd say that the salary was not very good. I left to make ends meet a little more. Consulting gets higher salaries and if I had to do it all over again, that's the division I'd apply for. Your experience at Accenture depends highly on the project. You could end up thinking Accenture is a horrible place to work because you put in 17 hour days or that it's a great place because you work 8 hour days. I had both experiences while working there...once even working until 2am 4 days straight.

Advice to Senior Management

Equalize pay between work streams,

Pros

Great Place to work and growth.

Cons

Project assignment takes time and its hard to find good project sometime.

Advice to Senior Management

Time Mgmt,

Pros

Working from home is great, but the ability to do that varies GREATLY across the company. Highly depends on who you report to, which workforce you are a part of and which area you support. Work can be interesting, they are very big on training. You get a lot of paid time off, but not everyone can truly use all their days (work life balance is truly dependent on your situation, as specified above).

Cons

Getting promoted can be VERY difficult. In certain groups there is a lot of favoritism, complete lack of work life balance. The rating process is crazy (don't expect a good rating to get your promoted or a good increase, especially in this economy). There are a lot of office politics (also depends on who you work for). I've worked in various areas within the company and my experiences have varied GREATLY.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to retain talent, don't be so afraid to promote people.

Pros

The "core values" that the company heralds are truly taken to heart within Accenture. It is a company that fosters the idea of hiring and training so that it is one of "best people."

Cons

Depending on your idea of "work/life balance," it could prove to be difficult to accept this position due to the constant travel time. Being an analyst here requires travel Monday-Thursday.

Advice to Senior Management

It seems that a great deal of time and money is wasted by people who wait several weeks to roll from one project to another, and something should be done to fix this.

Pros

Great experience, Good people, Lots to learn

Cons

Too much pressure, Cut throat competition

Advice to Senior Management

Better Compensation

Pros

People are nice, Benefits are good.

Cons

Internal Financial Operations are layered and disperse which makes reporting cumbersome

Advice to Senior Management

Constant realigment of organization causes problems

Pros

I find total compensation to be fairly competitive with peers of mine across the country. Due to the harsh economic climate, existing programs are being reinstated to help with the firm's bottom line such as flex leave and extended leave. It's hard to complain about treatment of regular travelers when things are so tight.

Cons

I sometimes struggle with the lack of communication even within my skills group provided to managers and below. It shouldn't be the case that so much guessing is taking place as many of us are looking for new roles! Sometimes I wonder if the purpose of frequent internal re-organization is to keep HR occupied.

Advice to Senior Management

Have fewer messages get channeled through HR! I enjoy the regular communications from Bill Green. I'd like to see this coming from other senior firm posts as well.

Pros

Good pay and 5 wks paid time off

Cons

moving up in finance is hard and getting pay increases are also hard.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Got a chance to work with diverse group of people. It provided a number of opportunities to grow professionally, technically and overall.

It provided good training and provide good support in case one falters. The firm expected a very can-do attitude. There was a serious attempt to ensure that everybody gets frequent feedback on performance and show where they stood in the performance.

Cons

Up-or-Out policy in consulting. Very strong requirement to know right partners if one wants to become partner. The consulting culture was cut-throat forcing people to continue to grow or get out.

The ratings were quite a bit dependent upon the personality of the direct manager on the project. If he is not strong, he could not defend you in the ratings call.

Very margin focussed. Employees are considered just a number. Very quick to give the people pink slip.

Advice to Senior Management

Reconsider up-or-out policy at senior manager level. Show a clear career path to grow.