No Work-Life Balance, Bonus and Merit is a Joke - Systems Integration Consultant Accenture Employee Review

3.0
Nov 24, 2014
Recommend
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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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5.0
Nov 7, 2025
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Pros

Great way to get experience working with social media companies, learned a lot about politics, news, advertising, social media company, marketing, job postings and tech sales. In the project I was part of I learned a lot about the world. Most of my bosses were genuinely amazing but I did cycle through a good few. You learn a lot about working with fortune 100 clients. The consultants are nice to work with. You get experience training people, working with a wide variety of teams. Pretty good pay for my experience at the time, the hiring team is very nice and the hiring process was easy. Also I was given a therapist due to the nature of the work. Also got an hour of paid wellness, which was nice but I think that just extended the workday by one hour for no real reason. It does feel like important and purposeful work.

Cons

The project I was assigned to was not as traumatic as some other ones thankfully. But you see a lot of things, you see how crazy the world and the internet can be, which in these times can be hard to watch. I didn't get an annual raise.

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5.0
Sep 21, 2015
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Pros

There are a lot of pros working for Accenutre. They have great career opportunities, a never ending supply of interesting work, competitive compensation, wonderful benefits, great people, wonderful training programs, a tremendous number of brilliant professionals in their fields ready to help, and great core values.

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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