good place to work...if you're in IT - Consultant Accenture Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Accenture is a great brand name for IT. From what I've seen it's a great launch point to industry positions but not much else. There's also great camraderie amongst members on the IT side of the business when they're on long engagements (1+ yr). Hours can be very long at times but if you find a great senior manager on your team then I've seen a lot of people happy.

Cons

Accenture is ultimately a tech consulting/outsourcing company. Always remember that. They may have other groups such as their strategy practice but ultimately the dollars come from IT consulting. Therefore if you want to really progress in your career it better be in that area because that's where all the big engagements occur. Promotions are a very political process as they are with any company. As much transparency as they want to bring to the roundtables there's always an X factor that doesn't explain why someone got promoted and someone else didn't. That's a common frustration. Also you'll feel like you're 120% utilized but then the overall utilization rate will be low and there are panic attacks about who's on the beach from management/hr. Someone is billing to admin codes all the time and though this isn't possible it feels like management has no idea who is and punishes everybody.

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5.0
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Pros

benefit, work life balance and diversity.

Cons

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5.0
Sep 21, 2015
Recommend
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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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