Accenture reviews

Accenture has never figured out how to competitively compensate its employees. Any of its analysts, consultants and managers could leave the firm at any time and find a job with a competing firm or former client and be virtually guaranteed to receive a higher salary under less stressful working conditions. Accenture was never good at honoring the travel requests of employees. The employees that really wanted to travel were usually staffed locally. Those who did not want to travel were staffed on extended projects away from home. The firm became significantly less fun back when it went public in 2001.

According to coworkers there can be a lot of unexpected overtime where you get guilted into it by committed teammates; for the consulting workforce 100% travel is a distinct possibility (I've never experienced either of these personally; however I did have unexpected inconvenient travel). For consulting there is a strong "up-or-out" push to go quickly into management and sales, which can be frustrating if you want to become stronger/deeper technically before moving up, and leads to a huge frustrating lack of technically skilled team leads and technical mentoring- I very quickly became a trusted "expert" to my non-technical managers despite feeling like I'm just trying to learn new technologies myself, and have had a very difficult time getting anyone to look at my work to give feedback to help me grow. The fact that it is a huge company means you can easily get lost and feel ignored/unappreciated despite their myriad programs to try to address this- the person assigned to give me ratings/feedback has never been located in the same region as me, and has changed frequently, so I haven't been able to develop a close relationship/advocate for my career advancement. They also have a strange approach to training where they see Accenture-specific training as adequate, so they are not supportive of pursuing outside certifications or degrees.