Accenture Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area

Pros

Accenture provides you the opportunity to work in a variety of industries and postions. There is a lot of support for career development and training. You work with great people who are very supportive. Overall, it is a great place to launch your career.

Cons

-Career development is largely up to you and your networking skills.
-Experiences differer depending on project and client
-Compensation is on the low side.

Advice to Senior Management

I think overall Accenture does well at training and developing people. I think if their salaries were more competitive they would retain more of their top performers.

Pros

Great potential to growth
Great for place to start off with for entry level.
Work hard, play hard mentality
Social peers

Cons

Employee Benefits should be improved.
Salary needs to be more competitive.
Networking is a must to get you where you wanted to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide the tools your employee need, like a laptop or something.
Provide an opportunities to the worker bee to explain them self before and after the PMP review prior to making decision on the performance review.

Pros

I was able to work with some wonderful people, made life-long friends, and learned some critical skills about project management

Cons

the entire staffing process is mind-boggling; i was routinely promised specific opportunities that were never realized; accenture is hyper bureaucratic - a derivative of being a public company and promotions are nebulous.

Advice to Senior Management

Follow through with what you say; invest in your resources; if you want to play with Deloitte and E&Y, pay like them

Pros

Came in as an experienced hire in Oct 2010. Impressed with ACN's training, client base, and coworkers.Lots of interesting projects in my industry and specialization. Great pipeline of work. Most importantly, I feel that by working hard and smart, by networking, and through a little luck, the opportunity for advancement is high.I didn't feel like this in industry.

Cons

For me, nearly non-stop travel. Grinding stretches of long days, especially if there's an offshore team in the mix (5, 6AM calls, then onsite client work, then calls again till 10, 11PM). Tough to take time off as needed. Project management and client contacts can make your engagement fall along the continuum of "excellent and highly engaged" to "grin and bear it." Cliques of employees who have been at the firm for a while. None of this should be a surprise to anyone in consulting.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm happy with the experience and am getting out of it what I hoped for. Proud to work here.

Pros

Great people fun to work with

Cons

Not challenging enough, needs to be more challenging

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more engineers

Pros

The work benefits seem endless. On top of medical, dental, and vision benefits, they have incredibile discounts on a great number of name brand consumer items. The people are great to work with and are very supportive of new hires and their learning processes. The company also requires you to take a certain amount of training every year and they pay for it all. You are reviewed every 6 months to a year and have a change for a large pay raise each time and possible a promotion (in job description only) which could include an additional raise.

Cons

Even though I just sit at a computer desk all day, I'm not allowed to wear head phones and listen to music while you work, but I do understand the "whys" of this though. It does make the communication lines between people feel more open though, you don't feel that people might not be listening to you.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm not sure if I really have some advice, my short experience with Accenture was been better than I could have imagined. I've met a great deal of talented people that I will be glad to work besides as I learn and grow with the company.

Pros

Networking - you can reach out lots of people with a variety of expertise in technology and business
Flexibility - work from home/remotely

Cons

Salary - it's not the best at higher career levels
Career - tends to move you towards management rather than staying on technology

Advice to Senior Management

Identifying and and recognizing key people in a team is important. Accenture needs to do this better if is wanted to keep good talents.

Pros

Pride in working for Accenture

Cons

In certain projects, Work/Life balance comes at a cost.
Performance Appraisal for Offshore resources who come onshore may not be satisfactory.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider providing residency options (Green card) for employees.

Pros

- diverse work
- smart people
- amazing knowledge sharing, internationally. Everyone is always willing to help/share information to help you
- very defined career model and feedback mechanisms to grow/improve

Cons

The standard consulting issues - travel, travel, travel, long hours

Advice to Senior Management

When a project is underbid, management needs to be more proactive and willing to step in and address with the client - as opposed to just expecting the team to work 24/7 to get it done anyway. While we don't usually mind working hard - when it happens over and over, the people do burn out.

Pros

Great people, good knowledge capital, good opportunities to create network and reputation. Open and transparent performance appraisal system. People development is critical: both your own and others.

Cons

Large organization, can take time to navigate especially as an experienced hire. Many checks and balances are in place for good reason - this can come across as bureaucratic.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the evolution of management consulting, cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit within the organization. Find new ways to retain the best people.