Accenture reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(177,367 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 177,367 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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1.0
Jul 31, 2019
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Pros

PRO: We just disregard orders from the top. Whenever Accenture Leadership asks us to undertake a job and no one gets fired. This is a incredible job pro, where I can disregard any task that would actually lead me to do the job. PRO: I get free training, travel, benefits and other expenses that I want despite the organisation losing almost half a million usd a month owing to bad iDefense leadership. PRO: Whenever I want and nobody cares, I can take PTO. PRO: Despite the lack of cyber skills, knowledge, experience or credentials, I am "fast tracked" to a Cyber Security Managing Director position. PRO: I can derail, snipe and literally sabotage every session to which I am invited, and no one can prevent me. It's so liberating! PRO: I can literally lose 70% of our customers in a year without replacing any of them with fresh customers, and I still receive excellent results reviews! Customers said they'd rather unsubscribe than hear my voice again and I'm getting bonuses! PRO: I get a nice office with all kinds of fancy computers and technology I can't work with. I've literally never learned how to use a keyboard and can only type with 2 fingers and don't know anything about computers, but at Accenture I'm a senior cyber safety supervisor –and I'm treated like I'm a super intelligent specialist and my opinion matters! PRO: Whenever I feel like it, I can come in and leave. Nobody's keeping track of my work. PRO: I get to have 4 hours of conferences where I hold individuals hostage and at the end of the day I get to go home feeling like I'm so intelligent and productive! PRO: I can create continual mistakes in the workplace, turn them late, and generate work that is below norms – and no one is concerned about it. PRO: I can literally do the opposite of what my peers want, and everybody forgets about it and always does what they want. PRO: I can behave stupid and incompetent whenever I'm called out to dodge any accountability and it always works! PRO: I literally don't have any good finished projects or anything to demonstrate for at the end of each year – yet everybody is still good to me and I can continue to do what I do best.

Cons

CON: They haven’t promoted me to managing director of the organization yet, and fail to recognize my brilliance. CON: Management hasn’t done enough to stop every employee I have ever managed from hating me and running away. CON: Management will be more concerned about dealing with this glass door post than actually remedying the situation in the company.

1.0
Apr 28, 2018

Hostile Environment

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Pros

Many opportunities to work for large companies and a lot of happy hours.

Cons

Local HR creates a hostile environment by threatening to fire you if you are not staffed locally, that same environment created by HR creates a hostile environment where managers will force us analysts to work long hours with out overtime pay and commute over an hour home. I almost crashed on my one hour and twenty minute drive home after working ten hours with out any overtime pay. Project management refused to pay for a hotel room and HR will not help if you inform them. Accenture cares more about profits then the safety of analysts.

3.0
Nov 24, 2014
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Pros

Accenture is a great place to learn about consulting on a global scale. The health insurance plans are affordable and strong and 25 days of vacation is a big plus.

Cons

You will dedicate your life to your project and be told by management to only record 40 hours worked in a week despite this being clearly against Accenture policy. The bonus and merit structure is a complete joke. You will be told about solid bonuses and raises when you receive your verbal offer, but they do not come to fruition. Despite turning out very good numbers for FY 2014 and increasing the stock dividend 10%, the majority of employees did not receive a raise this year and bonuses averaged a paltry 2% for those at the Consultant level. I expect extremely high attrition in 2015.

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