Very Negative Work Culture - Management Consulting Manager Accenture Employee Review

1.0
Dec 1, 2014
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Pros

Domestic yet challenging projects, demanding clients and projects, English online learning courses

Cons

Very bad and negative work culture, that promotes overwork and promises clients impossible deadlines, which result in people fall mentally and physically ill taking long sick leaves or automatic retirement due to stress and no motivation, and people evaluating you either don't help you or don't care other than themselves. Corporate culture is very domestic Japanese work culture even though it's an American company. Too much overhead on HR and back office who do not offer any benefits to the front-end consulting workforce and yet Japanese office is one of the organization in the Japanese black list of organization with huge penalties of mistreating its employees, it almost got shut down as a result, still on going issues. Huge gaps between American counter parts, and most local hires are new grad or mid career professional usually quit after 6 months or within a few years. Japanese Accenture does demand a lot from you but does not offer tele commute or work from home arrangement as US does, and managers constantly advise their subordinate not to report actual work hours so they don't have to pay overtime. I have never seen so many people falling sick in any other companies in my entire 20 years of my career (there were several suicides on the past). Power harassments exist as a normal practice. They ask you to provide a guarantor so that the company can takes advantages of you to death but you can't ever sue them for wrong doing. I cannot honestly advise friends to join the company but advise them to stay far far away from this non-sense and very abusive company. It will change you to worse person or will make you fall ill of nervous breakdown. It's not honest and respectful company, across all consulting workforce. I worked in other famous consulting companies but this is probably the worst organization I ever worked in five different countries. Stay far far away.

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