Poor Project - Senior Systems Administrator Avanade Employee Review

2.0
Apr 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Free Microsoft certification exams 2. Free access to good training materials 3. Great people who were all put in a really bad situation.

Cons

1. No work life balance. Expected to work 100% of the time even when not on call. 2. Encouraged to work "overtime" for training to get certified and then punished for doing too much even with certification progression to show for it.

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Pros

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Cons

Always restructuring. You don't actually work for Avanade you work for Accenture under the name of Avanade. Accenture is always trying to absorb or downsize Avanade and even the execs don't have real power there. Plus all work and decisions are also controlled by Microsoft, so if they're doing extremely well then Avanade does and then Accenture fights for their share of the money in some shady way.

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