Avanade Reviews

Pros

- very smart technologists
- opportunities for advancement

Cons

- travel, but that is the name of the game in consulting

Advice to Senior Management

- try and minimize travel wherever possible

Pros

Depending upon the project you can learn new technologies and the processes. Get good brand names on your resume. You will love the place if you like to write status reports – lot of them.

Cons

Be ready for LONG hours. Go home/hotel after 7 PM ready for status call at 7 AM. Lot of (filler) work that does not produce any value or satisfaction. Projects get staffed by bodies that not necessarily have skills that are needed.

Don’t be surprise if you have given a full time resource (a developer in India) and the same resource is full time resource on other project at the same time. Probably they have 48 hours in one day.

At least for folks in the field corporate organization structure is too complex to understand and meaningless for any practical purpose. I am not sure whose purpose it is serving.

Too much pressure to maintain high billable hours and that creates a conflict resulting in unprofessional work ethics.

Advice to Senior Management

Weed out the people who are around you for their looks and think about reverse discrimination.

Pros

- Great Working culture
- Great people to work with
- Good parent companies (Microsoft and Accenture)
- Technology Focussed

Cons

- Not matured yet in terms of Delivery

Advice to Senior Management

Please focus on delivery management at all the countries. Else other service providers will take you out of the IT Service context

Pros

I've worked for other consulting companies in the area and this employer far exceeds any of them. They offer ongoing training, competent leadership, and the corporate ladder is clearly defined.

Cons

There isn't much to complain about except if you aren't the kind of person that handles change very well, I wouldn't recommend it. Sometimes, a project can last 6 months or a year, sometimes just a couple months.

Pros

Training, all you can get.

Cons

Salary, below average, should be more.

Advice to Senior Management

If you refer to us as above the market, pay us as we were!!

Pros

Great People, Great workand training.Awesome career opportunities. Good pay and great work life balance

Cons

Traveling. etc which comes with a consultant's life

Pros

Changing projects and different opportunities

Cons

Non Competitive salary for certain people

Advice to Senior Management

Retaining good people needs to be key

Pros

some good projects where you can learn even if you don't have prev exp in that tech. Also get your own laptop and some projects give you wfh days.

Cons

1. Politics and more politics
2. @ss kissing required
3. Project quality is crap shot

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest with employees
Try to give them more say in roles they are staffed on
Try to get rid of projects which use legacy techs

Pros

Good place to expand your skills

Cons

The way the review is structured, performance is not a measurement of your good work but a measurement of how well you sell yourself on paper. Promotion is slow & pay is below industry average.

Advice to Senior Management

Use peer review and customer feedbacks to measure performance.

Pros

- Work with a lot of smart and talented people.
- Get access to an msdn subscription and have full access to Microsoft software.
- Possibility of traveling all over the United States to work on different projects with different clients.
- A lot of free training opportunities to learn about Microsoft technologies and earn certifications.
- If on a traveling project, work from home on Fridays.

Cons

- Expected 80% travel.
- Possibly working long hours (50 - 70 hours per week).
- High risk job environment if there are no available projects to staff you on.
- Not as much interaction with co-workers from your area. Difficult to build the sense of community and culture among peers with the constant travel.

Advice to Senior Management

- Have more volunteer opportunities to give back to the community.
- Career managers should also be reviewed and evaluated based on performance in managing other people's careers.