Company wants automatons and not individuals - Anonymous employee Accenture Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary for the area is very good Health care, pension, overtime remuneration etc are all good, but appear to be in line with major organisations Good technical people to work with, in the main

Cons

Being US lead never works in the UK, down to the fact that the UK work ethos is completely different to that of the US Recognise the good people in the organisation, by what they do not by some spreadsheet or by some connection to management. The performance measurement tool, is a joke. Scrap it all together. It d Scrap the different worforces and align individuals by skillset, this will also help the performance management side of things Scrap the overburdening amount of Senior Executives on a single project Look outside of London, it is NOT the centre of the universe and there are a great deal of people with excellent skills, north of Watford !!!

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Cons

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