Accenture – “It's not for everyone”

Pros

- Good vacation time
- Nice people to work with
- Exposure to many industries
- Good perks...lots of employee discounts, get to keep frequent flier miles and hotel points

Cons

- Long hours
- Work can be really boring at times
- It's more important that you have billable hours than that you are building up a solid skill set
- Sometimes you have little say over which projects you are assigned to
- The feedback/review process is set up well, but having one bad project where you don't get along well with your manager can hold you back in terms of rankings and promotions
- Way to much emphasis on networking...it's more important who you know than what you know

Advice to Senior Management

Give more support to Analysts when they are assigned to their first few projects. If you are going to assign us to a community (ex. Oracle or SAP), make sure we are working on projects related to that community. Don't force analysts onto projects that they have no interest in, especially when they know what they are interested in and where they want to develop their skills.