Accenture Reviews in Sydney, Australia Area

Pros

Variety of quality projects
Good brand
Bright colleagues
Equal opportunity for promotion

Cons

Some inexperienced staff being promoted as manager, some loves to micro-manage staff
Feels like a virtual organisation, very fluid organisation structure.
One must follow (i.e. travel) where the work is available.

Advice to Senior Management

More leadership training is required for managers and above

Pros

- The A list clientele and cutting edge work provides lots of learning opportunities for those curious about how the world works.
- good grounding for consultants looking to build strong business fundamentals and executive communication skills.
- excellent work colleagues who share a sense of pride in the work we do.

Cons

- long hours can take a toll on those seeking work life balance.
- lifestyle can vary drastically depending on project scope, timeline, resourcing

Advice to Senior Management

Please continue to invest in building the core skills of consultants. Please continue to improve remuneration in recognition of the hard yards consultants put in.

Pros

-People: Everyone works cooperatively and shares the workload. Everyone is also lots of fun in and out of the office. To me, this is the BEST thing about accenture.

-Structure: every department knows exactly what they need to do. Boundaries are well defined

-Community events: every few months there is something going like fancy functions, dinners with executives, team building workshops

Cons

-work content- as a technology analyst, if you're not into IT it can be a downer to work.

Advice to Senior Management

More feedback and encouragement

Pros

Big Name good on your CV
Good for new graduates
Professional in what they doing
Female got more promotions chances in Enterprise workforce
The building is new and environmental friendly
Good View

Cons

Enterprise Leadership picks their favorites for promotion
Decide the person first before they post job ads, fake ads
No recognition, Leadership cares more about their networking then their employee
Definately no life work balance
Enterprise leadership is sometimes arrogant and rude
Cost cutting strategy is too aggressive, outsourcing most jobs to cheal labor countries
Office Location not convenient
No casual on Friday. Only once a month.

Advice to Senior Management

please care more about your employees, as they are the ones really doing the work.

Pros

Fairness, variety of roles, brand value of Accenture, etc.

Cons

Too big and sometimes suggestions for improvements get lost!

Pros

Work with the best people in the industry. if you want to work with high calibre people Accenture is the place to be.

Cons

Be prepared to work very hard including on weekends.

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Opportunities for professional training and conducting training is pretty good in the firm. The KX is full of excellent materials for leveraging on other engagements. The firm is really good in selling itself in these materials. Large client engagements. opportunities to work with snr execs of Tier 1 companies in all industries. the senior you in the firm the senior the exposure...i'm currently engaging with c-level execs for one of the leading financial services organisation in australia

Cons

It's primarily an American company i.e. i've yet to see non-american partners rising to C-level positions within the firm. So I dont have lots of confidence when they say that appointment of C-level positions are in the best of interest of the company. There are some really excellent partners more than capable outside NA that could lead the firm further up....pay is definitely lower than industry average....

Advice to Senior Management

pay better to keep best people....owise you will lose them...sometimes, i dont understand why some practice leaders are there when they are clearly not making any progress for the practice...

Pros

Capable people
Enormous knowledge base
travel if you are up for it

Cons

Experienced hires not integrated
non Accenture experience not regarded if you are not a classic Accenture Delivery Methods android
the average Senior Manager (10yrs+) with the firm receives about 11+ brainwash sessions in Accenture’s education centre in St Charles (Illinois)
Performance rating by career counsellors and SE's based on sympathy rarely on real life performance
Accenture maintains a culture of high performers who can do the job. Those high performers often hear about the technology or methodology just before their project assignments
RFP knowledge based on similar jobs done previously with little innovation
You work like a horse and often unnecessary due to bad planning and a SE who told you to do so
Accenture tries to overcomplicate deals, that is a general theme
Not listening to client (Example client asks for CRM solution, Accenture responds with whole ERP solution to sell more SAP)
Accenture is not flexible with client requirements to services contract
Operating cost base is massive
Absolutely no culture

Advice to Senior Management

Get the operating model right
integrated perfomance metrics across all work forces
listen to the client and don't hit every nail with the Accenture hammer

Pros

Plenty of Travel if you like it and Money is ok. You can get diverse experience working in all industries.

Cons

Promotion is biased and there is no such thing as work life balance. There is no importance given to your career growth. You have to be chargeble and working at all times even though the work is not related to your skill set.

Majority of the accenture employees are technical PM's. They dont have indepth knowledge of technology or business startegy.

They rely on past projects & throw inexperienced gradutes in difficult projects to complete their work.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees as human beings.

Pros

Used to have a great reputation, particularly under the previous brand. One of the best (and most difficult) graduate "training" schemes in the IT Industry - the gain is certainly worth the pain in the long term. If you get in - particularly in consulting - you'll be working with similar "A Type" personalities, some of whom you will be in conflict with, others will be colleagues and best friends for life. Depending where you are in the world, you may get opportunities to travel. If you deliver, get constantly good results, and "create" a position for yourself somewhere - you will make it. A great name to have on your CV.

Cons

... historically. Now isn't so good as the reputation of company going downhill fast due to major non-delivery of projects. Be very wary of those that have been "brainwashed" - very good salespeople. HR and Marketing very self-important and don't understand what its like to work "at the coal face". Expect to work very long hours, unpaid overtime, at weekends as "normal". Huge differences in morale, salaries, travel, benefits across the world. Snobby culture in Consulting against the other workforces. Be very wary of "large transformational projects" for "market leading companies" - these tend to be the most under-resourced and lowest morale among staff. "Oversell and Underdeliver" seems to be the motto at the leadership level. Does not value specialist staff - be prepared to be a generalist if you are going for career progression.

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to basics. Your product is your people. Stop hiring externally from the Manager level upwards - they haven't (and won't) have the same grounding that those who started at Analyst level do. Keep an eye on your rentention and employee churn rates. Cut down on unnecessary briefings about change in upper-level management, focus more on what the lower-level people and what is necessary for them. And for gods sake stop using the "shareholder" line for cost-cutting and transparency ... everyone knows that the current Partners and SEs are the "shareholders" and that the carrot-and-stick approach is not going to work as it did for you.