Dumpster Fire - Senior Manager Accenture Employee Review

I once loved this firm, but everything began to fall apart when Jimmy Etheredge and Christie Smith "retired" from the firm. Julie Sweet announced 19,000 people will be laid off from corporate functions and replaced by resources from lower cost jurisdictions. After the initial purge, client serving groups were similarly slashed through performance reviews and bench time. Do not misunderstand these eliminations as being a Jack Welchian sort of meritocracy - these eliminations were corporately mandated and executed based on political biases. The even promoted someone from manager to senior manager, and then promptly laid them off because that was the target group for eliminations for that particular practice. According to some in the know, the net result is approximately reduction in staff rather than the mere 19,000 replacements. The firings have been a disaster as some of the reviews have mentioned. The offshoring is not a replacement in kind - it is very much a cheap substitution. Some people who were fired were rehired because management could not find a replacement. Middle management is not doing much better than their corporate overlords. They are given scripts for every conversation, and will not provide any information beyond the script. In some instances, they are actually insulted by thoughtful questions asked by their subordinates, and they just repeat the non applicable scripted responses.