Pros

It is actually pretty hard for me to give any positive points on Accenture. Unless you are born and bred into this culture I think you'll find it very political and not a place you'll enjoy spending your life.

One of the main pros is similar to most consulting jobs - the travel perks. After working here for 2 years I hit executive platinum on American Airlines and had enough air and hotel points to provide a few free vacations.

Cons

I was a part of the management consulting arm during my 2 years here. Unfortunately, Accenture hasn't made enough of a move into the management consulting business to have projects for all of their management consultants. This leads to staffing on IT implementation and outsourcing roles because that is the majority of work Accenture wins.

The management of Accenture is at the heart of the dissatisfaction of its employees. Management is very political and if you get on the good side of a partner, you are set for life. If you come from 'industry' as they say, breaking into the Accenture culture is tough if you are the kind of person who wants to do what is right for the client, not just what will make the partner look the best.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a hard look at the way in which some of the partners operate their projects and try starting from the ground up in building teams that will successfully deliver the end product - don't allow partners to just staff people they know will follow them around like puppy dogs and never challenge them.

Pros

Great place to work and good career growth for middle managers

Cons

Lack of communication between senior management and junior employees

Advice to Senior Management

Need to identfy and recognize best performers and give them support

Pros

Accenture has good people to work with. The employee benefits are adequate. The firm has an excellent reputation in the industry.

Cons

If you have an assignment with high impact/visibility, you will get a good bonus. If not, your compensation will tend to suffer.

Advice to Senior Management

Accenture charges premium prices for their services because of the extra value their people are expected to add. Management should polish up their value proposition for meat-and-potatoes information technology jobs.

Pros

1) Exposure To Huge Clients ..means good work exp end of the day , no matter in what technology u are...
2) Annual Reviews are mostly impartial and u have escalation level if not satisfied.
3) HR policies are pretty strict .. When it comes to both employees at lower and senior level.
4) Fexiblity in working hours..

Cons

1)Not industry standard in pay package.
2) High attrition due to the same.
3) Not good when it comes to employee shifting of work location like one month u will be in mum prj , next month order will come to join prj in bang.. ( Or conditions are created for u to force that prj in other city to join it.)

Advice to Senior Management

1) Increase the package and offer more to good talent from outside to stop attrition

Pros

- Salary, ACN provide above average salary than its peers
- Brand, Good name in the market gets you in front of most business leaders without much effort

Cons

- Association with a partners than the goodwill of the customers or your value addition really matters
- There is a famous term used in Accenture Consulting known as POTA i.e. pulled out of thin air. Most of the Indian business leaders trust the brand hence don't question the hypothesis of ACN management strategy, conclusions and roadmap. Those who do throw them out of their offices as quickly as they can.
-India domestic business practices are very average sold at premium rates
-Foul language especially derogatory remarks against female are most common in close room all male discussions within the New Delhi DLF office

Advice to Senior Management

-Bring same professional aptitude as in west especially in US practice to IDB
-Evaluate people based on the value they bring to the firm and customer, not how they dress and how many people they know in Accenture

Pros

Working on Accenture solutions, at the beginning of your career gives you the oportunity to access very interesting clients/projects. The complany offers a good starting salary and great facilities for employes.

Cons

The ladering can be quite unfair and is ridiscusly dificult to go up, it depends more on the circunstances of the project that on your real abilities.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that the ladering process should be taken care of, and more recongition of people with great tech abilities should be made.

Pros

Great Work Culture
Good Management
Work Life Balance
Flexi timings
Great Friends
Good Onshore Opportunities
More Projects
Job security
Good Infrastructure

Cons

No Transparency in Feedbacks
Poor Mentoring of Freshers or New Joiners
Different cultures in different locations of organization
Rotation policies are not effective
Bad selection of projects
Politics are the worst of above.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership team should take effective care in training or guiding the Team Leads joining from other companies in understanding the Accenture values and culture.

Pros

Strong Credentials of Company; deep client relationships; senior management engaged in company success; strong culture - most folks understand the "secret sauce" of the companies culture which is important

Cons

Compensation much lower than other consultant companies; benefits on average to other companies; entry level employees not very skilled - sometimes more of a body shop

Advice to Senior Management

More investment in middle/upper management; higher entry level senior executive compensation; more focus on senior manager development; senior managers are often "left out" of key decisions

Pros

1. Great learning technically as well as professionally
2. Plenty of materials to learn and groom ourselves.
3. Good place to start a career
4. Highly skilled technical people.

Cons

1. There should be more transparency with the senior management.
2. Salary hikes have gone down.
3. Due to mass recruitment quality of resources have gone down.
4. On-site opportunities are very less.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Salary gap between higher level and lower level employees is too much
2. Really need to have some quality food in the cafeteria.
3. Give more onsite opportunities to the employees.

Pros

-Decent pay package
-Opportunities to take on responsibilities beyond your capabilities
-Fairly fast paced progression
-Fairly young work force
-Possible overseas assignments

Cons

-Terrible work life balance
-workaholic work culture
-bad working conditions
-Inexperienced management make bad decisions for the team / project
-Lack of experienced people on the project with real knowledge

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management should ensure that projects are adequately staffed and that proper project planning and estimations are performed. Also, the right amount of experienced staff should be present to prevent inexperienced staff from making stupid mistakes and decisions.