Accenture Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

Pros

Thousands of free self-paced online training programs to develop and augment skills in your line of work. If you do well, there are always opportunities to work in other countries and learn how to work with colleagues from a different culture. Senior executive support and mentoring programs. High technology environment. Good place to build on your leadership skills, learn new processes, and introduce improvements in operations. The company encourages continuous improvements and innovation. Regular site visits by top management. Good networking opportunities. People help when you ask for help.

Cons

Difficult to navigate your career when you roll off a project. You have a limited shelf life if you're assigned to a project and you end up searching and sometimes fighting for a role in another project. Project performance really depends on whoever is assigned as the project manager so there's no guarantee that all moving parts are going to perform well.

Advice to Senior Management

Manage staff deployment better by ensuring that employees have a project to go to when they roll off. Improve quality of project management for both old projects and new projects by consistently implementing quality assurance activities and deploying service management or quality assurance teams in production sites rather than just doing a review over the phone. Review the service quality for each scope with both the operations teams and the clients to really get a good understanding if expectations are being met or if there are problems. Hire more experienced outsourcing managers to increase service delivery expertise in projects.

Pros

Good place to start your career. Generally the company encourage its employee to take challenge and offer various of opportunities to grow.

Cons

Usually need to work long hours to get good performance. No good for work and life balance.

Pros

The people in my department.

Cons

The people outside my department.

Pros

Salary is OK, but company does not engage people in the work.

Cons

Too much politics, promotions not based on merit or competence.

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to improve perception of reality and respect for the individual.

Pros

Some big projects in which you may be able to use new technologies.

Cons

You are just a tool when there are projects that need heads.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire better people with technical competence, pay a better salary to hold them longer. Put the success of projects higher priority than short term revenue from head counts.

Pros

Benefits are nice (depending on your client)
work/life balance

Cons

Not good communication from management
Promotion - What is the standard? It's not entirely unfair, but definitely some lucky people get earlier promotion (it highly relies on your manager, senior co-workers, timing and company policy at the time of your promotion review). Unlucky people must wait many years to get promoted even though they get 'EXCELLENT' performance feedback. Your manager keeps your hope high on promotion for years.. and you end up finding yourself not promoted without any reasoning explained to you.

Training opportunity is very limited and given to the same people over and over again.

Too much bureaucracy. Basically you have to work on things you are told to do. No voluntary choices given to you on what you want to work on.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to employees' morale - make promotion process more fair and budget more for employee training.

Pros

- good reputation and strategy
 - energized and motivated co-workers
 - fast moving environment
 - access to resources and training
 - access to c-level of top companies

Cons

- need to like a fast changing environment
 - may lead to longer term travel out of town (can be a plus for some) especially in consulting
 - matrixed organization, can be confusing initially to navigate

Advice to Senior Management

- management takes risks to keep Accenture very relevant
 - good balance on operational excellence and people as well as growth

Pros

Strong brand, if you want to be in technology consulting, this is the place to be. Lots of opportunities to work with big name clients, respected firm by the industry overall. Lots of room to grow and move around in the company.

Cons

It's consulting, so when the project gets tough, expect to work crazy hours like any consulting firms. Need to manage your own career and know where you want to go, otherwise you'll be lost in this big firm with too many choices and paths.

Advice to Senior Management

Talent management and how to retain good people need to be strengthened within the consulting workforce. Too many talented people leaving, and what remains are the mediocre to climb up the ranks.

Pros

Great flexible hours and Work/Life Balance. Benefits are ok.. have to pay for extras. Good discounts at various retailers. Free training online and occasional travel.

Cons

Pay well below market value. Major offshore push and no job security. They say respect is a core value but its rarely lived up to. Too many deadweights who once served a purpose but now are just collecting a paycheck.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a system that evaluates contribution and worth, reward those employees and pay them well. Lose the dead weight and Accenture will be a much light more agile ship.

Pros

Global brand name. Extensive global resources. Standardized tool makes deployment easier. Easy lateral move within company

Cons

Low compensation. Lack of promotion chance.

Advice to Senior Management

Know your people, make them stay