Accenture reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(177,390 total reviews)
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Julie Sweet

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61% positive business outlook

Accenture has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 177,390 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Accenture employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Jul 7, 2008
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Pros

As an Accenture employee, I work for a big customer of Accenture and on a long term contract. Not much travel required, which is good for me. (I have two kids under 6.) You get some training opportunities and learn different technologies, especially when the project get more complicated. Workload is not that terrible, did not work many over night in my past year. People are very nice and pretty tolerate each other with different culture. Accenture is a good name to put into resume. If you want some security, stay here. If you are young and competent, move ahead.

Cons

We have many managers have no idea about the technologies. Some horrible architecture and design are passed into implementation without enough technical review, usually because the managers lack technical skills. Out sourcing makes things even worse. Poor and inexperienced developers get hired at India and cause more work here, e.g., cleaning the code and more debug. What managers care is budget and deadline, not enough work has been done to coordinate the teams. All these add up. You can imagine the mess. It won't take too long to make your morale low. I think that's why I see many people leaving.

2.0
Jul 5, 2008
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Pros

There is definitely brand recognition in working for Accenture. It's the largest consulting firm in the world, so people have heard of them. (Besides, who could miss the Tiger ads plastered all over every apirport.) One person who posted mentioned that they got 6 years of experience in 3 years at the company. That's probably true. There's a wide range of clients and experiences to have at the company. In my 20 months with the firm, I worked on 6 projects at 6 different clients, all in different industries. That's not something that you're going to get in any other industry job.

Cons

Work/Life balance? What's that? There pretty much isn't such a thing as work/life balance at Accenture. It's all about "productivity numbers" which is basically the number of hours you are chargeable to the client in any given week, out of 40. So it is possible to have chargeablility greater than 100%, e.g., you work on client material for 50 hours, and your chargeablility would be 125% (50/40 = 1.25) But for the firm, it's all about chargeablility. In some instances, I think the drive to get high productivity drives unethical behavior. I've seen people charge in hours spent at team dinners that didn't have the client present just because it was "work related." I felt like a jack of all trades, master of none at this company. Frequently, they put people in roles they are not qualified to fill. This also borders on unethical because as consultants, our job is to come in as the experts, but when we know less than the client about a particular software or issue, that can't be a good situation. Many "experts" are nothing more than experts at Googling for solutions to a particular issue, having no real expertise in the matter at all. Again, this placement in a particular role goes back to the productivity issue. The firm wants people to charge hours to a client even if it means charging 40-80 hours of time spent "researching" something on Google. If it didn't cost companies so much money, it would almost be laughable. The pay isn't that great. When I entered, I was told that Consultants were paid significantly more than their "industry" counterparts. Thanks to Glassdoor, I'm not sure that's the case any more. I think people in industry can easily be paid 20-30% more than Accenture employees

2.0
Jul 4, 2008
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Pros

Solid name of the company,recognized of the labor market. Also is pretty good for beginners to get project experience and find friends. There are opportunities for local employees to get experience of big international projects and even relocate abroad for the project or on permanent basis.

Cons

Not clear criterias for promotion. Moscow office managed from Itlay, which means all critical desicions are done ther in a very slow manner. In many cases company loose tenders because of inadequate management on the ground. There is some may be local downsides like: vacation can be easily cancelled at last minute, salaries are sometimes below market levels.

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