Accenture Reviews in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Area

Pros

- Great training
- Excellent, broad exposure to many different companies and functional areas
- Strong benefits package
- Good GLBT network and support
- Desirable travel perks - airline miles, hotel points, per diems
- Offers work alternatives outside of consulting

Cons

- Mid-point salary range compared to market
- Long hours
- Extensive travel
- Raises, evaluation and promotions are very dependent on project/role
- Stronger emphasis of moving work to non-consulting, non-US alternatives

Pros

Exposure to various clients, personalities, software. At analyst level you get OT which is a motivating factor as they will WORK you weekends and evenings due to deliverable.

Cons

Getting promoted from Analyst to Specialist will be a DEMOTION. No OT is given anymore. You base salary increase wont be CLOSE to what you made as an Analyst with almost guaranteed 20% ot due to large workloads, constant attrition and lack of organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to develop a better Career path and increase Pay. Otherwise, competitors will keep coming and picking up the bright and young of Accenture Finance with 30% salary bumps!

Pros

The people are great, you will be happy working here if you are looking for a stimulating job you can pursue seriously.

Cons

There is limited growth potential if you are looking for a very grand career, but Accenture is good on your resume, you can use this as a stepping stone.

Pros

Accenture is a great way to kick start your career or develop deep skills as an experienced hire. The people who work here are motivated, intelligent and looking to provide the best services to their clients. The consulting path is aggressive and pushes the individual to excel at the client and in Accenture's organization.

Cons

The major downfall of a management consultant at Accenture is the fact that travel is pretty much a requirement (maybe seen as a benefit to some). When traveling you are required to be on the client site 4 or 5 days of the week (depends on the client) and if you have a family it make for some tough time management. Eventually you find the right rhythm for you and your family, but it just isn't the same as being there in person. Overall Accenture is attempting to off more opportunities to work with employees to meet travel demands, but it will take a few years before telecommuting and flexible work schedules are seen as valuable by some clients.

Pros

workplace flexability and level of compensation

Cons

poor management up the Sr. Leadership level. Mainly in the IT infrastructure department. This may have improved as the result of the "leader" now working directly for Best Buy

Advice to Senior Management

can the dead weight

Pros

Depending on luck, you might get on a good project, which can make or break everything from future roles to compensation.

Good PTO (25 days if memory serves me)

Not hard to find good, fun peers

Cons

Pay grade is below consulting industry standard - get in, get 3+ years, and get out with a 50 - 100% pay increase at a smaller place

Promotions based upon how good of a negotiator your Career Counselor (since they sit in the rankings meetings and have to argue for you)

HR Reps are pointless

Most good talent leaves before ever making Senior Manager, which means Accenture is full of crap at the top.

Offshore work is rampant, be prepared for endless late night conference calls with Manila (hopefully not India as their accents are way too thick to comprehend).

Advice to Senior Management

constant org redesigns (that impact nothing) are pointless, and the performance review process doesn't reward the top performers consistently or properly. Poor pay results in lesser talent sitcking around, while to good talent leaves for better opportunities.

Pros

Decent Pay, Good training, Good MGMT

Cons

Over Worked. 7 day work.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Accenture takes really good care of employee. they provide lots of training, events , meeting,
appraisal, prizes, games, volunteer events. Meaning they know what they should do.

Cons

didnt like their benefits package much...

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership was awesome.whole team was in-sync in terms of communication.

Pros

Brand Recognition; Intelligent Co-Workers; Portal
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Cons

Compensation
Work-Life Balance
Annual Review Process
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Advice to Senior Management

What is the affect of offshore on work-life balance and are we burning out our best to sacrifice a low cost to serve?

Pros

Some good people to work with. Professional atmosphere. Not the fastest responder, but they do move all-in when they move.

Cons

Outsourced a ot of internal jobs to India. Limited opoutrunites to chnge jobs but they did have a good 'job bank'.

Advice to Senior Management

They made a dificult transition from private, partner based institution to a public company. They treated the people that were let go decently for the most part.