Accenture Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

Great new job
Good learning experiences

Cons

Work life balance is not there....work & work

Advice to Senior Management

Estimate properly and hire the right & enough people

Pros

Extremely smart people working on some of the toughest technical challenges. Wide range of products that you can potentially switch to if something strikes your fancy.

Cons

Company is slowly getting bloated in terms of # of people and pace. No longer is as agile and fast paced as it used to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Though it is important to provide job security etc for your employees, you shouldn't be afraid to cut the bottom of your employee pool in order to maintain maximum efficiency.

Pros

Project choice
Strategic problem solving approach
Lifestyle
People

Cons

Convoluted portal makes support services/benefits difficult to access

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up!

Pros

Great place to work and great place to start a career. Management seems decided to grow its Management Consulting (vs. Technology consulting) practice.

Cons

Travel can be hectic but this is true for all consulting firms. Sometimes get stuck into PMO roles

Advice to Senior Management

Retain your talent and work

Pros

- challenging projects
- brilliant teams
- robust knowledge sharing
- excellent training
- independent working style
- reputable company
- top of the line networking/social activites
- top grade work/life balance
- tons of vacation time (I have 5 wks per yr - consultant level
- values junior resources

Cons

- compensation (Accenture will not negotiate - my process consisted of 4wks back & forth. I ended up taking a pay cut because I really wanted the opportunity)
I'm happy nonetheless

Advice to Senior Management

pay your staff more - retention would be MUCH better.

Pros

Exposure to wide array of software and technologies only if you get into a right group.
Fast paste environment.
A lot of young fellows coworkers

Cons

Very low salary - I was making 25,000 first year, 32,000 - second year
There is no life/ work balance if you want to advance your career.
You are on your own to gain experience.
There is a great chance to work on a project supporting outdated technology.

Advice to Senior Management

If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys to work for you....

Pros

Accenture is a difficult place to work. You will be surrounded by smart people and the training opportunities are decent. There are a variety of interesting projects to choose from.

Cons

Burn-out!! Accenture is extremely short-staffed and rather than hiring more people they're making existing employees do the work of 2 or 3 people. Also, if you're an experienced hire, your ideas won't be valued in the same way as the people who came in straight out of college. The culture at Accenture is horrible, morale is lower than at any company I've ever worked at. Also, they are just about the cheapest company I have ever encountered.

Advice to Senior Management

You say that people are your most valuable asset, you should start acting in a way that demonstrates that. If you want good people to stay, pay competitively and stop burning your people out.

Pros

+Opportunities to grow
+Ability to work with top companies
+Global opportunities
+Accenture Development Partnerships

Cons

-Bureaucracy
-Average pay
-Some projects are poorly run

Advice to Senior Management

Good place to start career but its a hit or miss as you grow within the company

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

Interesting consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies.

Cons

New joiners need wait some time to get staffed.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior executives and managers at Accenture are very intelligent.