Good for out of college, many things out of your control - Programmer Accenture Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2012
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Pros

Travel benefits (if you're allowed to travel) Programmers get paid overtime (but off a low base salary) Month long programming training was awesome and fully paid for Great if you can get on a meaningful first project. Be very careful in choosing your first project. It's better to stay on the bench for months than to accept a project right away that will pigeonhole you into an undesirable role for the rest of your Accenture career.

Cons

Programmers with Accenture are under the "solutions" branch, which essentially means that they can pay you less, charge less for you to meet their budgets, and still get the same work out of you as consultants. Don't expect to be able to do any programming. You will go where the company needs you and will probably be stuck there. Most of the focus is on creating "resources" (aka people) with niche skills and keeping them on a long term project as cheap labor. Promotion and raises are too much dependent on who your career counselor is. If you have an absentee CC expect to never get promoted. Programmers start off at a much lower salary than consultants, but end up doing much of the same work. Get ready to work side by side with people doing exactly what you do but who get paid 20-30k more. 12 days of vacation vs 25 for consultants. 5 steps to manager vs 2.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

This is not an opportunity for those that do not want to work. At Accenture everyone has a load of work to do and often times under very tight customer time lines. It is a challenge that I enjoy but many might find it stressful.

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