Accenture Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Accenture has a lot of sharp people

Cons

Accenture does not integrate new hires very well

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more assistance to orient new hires to company.

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

People are fun and intelligent, lots of great training opportunities, looks good on resume, good basis for career, great analysts and consultants.

Cons

Pay, growth opportunities, upper level management is looking out for themselves only as they try to advance and make money

Advice to Senior Management

You need to care about your people more instead of selling more work. If you are loyal to your people they woll enable you to do great things.

Pros

Great opportunity to travel the world and learn at a very fast pace.

Cons

Experience depends on a particular project and the teams within the project. Promotions aren't always fair and compensation is not competitive in some workforces.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the organization more flat. The hierarchy discourages collaboration, sharing and open mind.

Pros

- smart, supportive teams
- given opportunities for challenges and to 'prove capabilities'
- structured career growth

Cons

-lots of travel
-work life balance challenges - required to be accessible around the clock
-lower compensation compared to other firms

Advice to Senior Management

Give more incentive to top performers and "home grown leadership" to stay. Respect pto and work life balance by setting an example.

Pros

Training, Pedegree, Experience, Industries, teams

Cons

to much micromanagement from leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Have faiththat the teams can do the jobs you're paying them to do

Pros

Flexible travel policies-allows you to book tickets that best suite your schedule
PFF rating is a very structured process
Has good bonuses

Cons

If you are on H1B and hoping for GC sponsorship, Accenture is NOT the company for you because they don't do sponsorships.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize valuable resources that are on H1B and help them get their GC's. It takes a while to get used and excel in the Accenture culture, so letting go if existing resources and hiring new ones doesn't give much benefit. I have seen this where new hires although senior and very knowledgeable that fails because they are not accustomed to the Accenture methodology.

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

Very professional environment
Very good implementation methodology
Very stable firm with great access to knowledge
Very good benefits and fair compensation
gives consultants great opportunity to rise up and take ownership and drive projects
Excellent place to launch career
Gives you option to work internationally

Cons

Need to work long hours thus no work life balance
Minorities are very few to none in senior management on a given project
Does not give very good raises and the rating process lacks fairness with very few getting good raises and rest not getting any at all in this up or out model
The firm has great delivery and great tools for methodology but lacks content and hence promotions are based on delivery rather than content. This is also because they hire a high % of consultants from college for certain workstreams where content is needed
Senior management lacks the ability to use the best implementation methodologies
Very few clients on west coast and hence if you are on west coast you end up travelling to 3 hour time zones thus a lot a west coast employees have no work life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Recruit more experienced hires in core knowledge areas rather than people out of hte college
Even if people are rated Consistent With make sure you at least give them some raise instead of giving all the raise to the high performers 10-20% and none to ones who are consistent becasue of the lack of fairness in rating
Try to get more projects and have more senior executives on west coast. Prevent monopoly of certain people on west coast
Make sure you have the content not just empty sr mgr who jsut chase deliverables by status and bill a client. And make sure you reward people who provide the content separately instead of comingling them in the rating process while ranking people who just claim to deliver without any content
Be flexible and give opportunity to people to switch workstreams - IT consulting to management consulting
Train experienced hires on the proprietoty tools to leverage their skills with your tools instead of dumpoingthem in a project right away
Have a way of sustaining people in the long run and not just make it too top heavy that people cannot make partners and are now blocked at sr manager and manager levels

Pros

Accenture is a great place to start your career. You have the opportunity to do some amazing things as a new college graduate what you would not otherwise, and in as few as 5 years, you can make it to management. In general, the people are amazing. You will work with some of the brightest and most hardworking; however after a few years, all the best people tend to leave for school or more money else where.
Other pros: 5 weeks of PTO, able to move up quickly

Cons

The single biggest con of working for Accenture is the salary. You will find that your peers at other firms are consistently paid more to do less.
Accenture expects you to travel 100% if you're in consulting. You have the "option" to choose local roles, but know that it will absolutely impact your career if you are unable to travel.
Once you're aligned to a group, it is extremely difficult to move laterally, especially if there is high demand in your current alignment.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay competitive salary to maintain the best people.