Accenture reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(177,541 total reviews)
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Julie Sweet

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60% positive business outlook

Accenture has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 177,541 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Accenture employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 11, 2018

Disasterous employee retention, and you wonder why?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You may see exposure to multiple technologies outside of your cv, which can lead to some career building. You will also possibly work with some great team mates.

Cons

If you are being offered an experienced hire consultant role, be wary. Your experience in some tech may be of use, but the work ethic, methodology, and poor management abilities at this (so-called) "firm", as they refer to themselves, may repeal your interests - at least if you have past working experience for a reputable employer. - There is no work/life balance (funny to be told during the offer process that hours will be paid, with full over time, only to be told by a PM to not put in over 40 hours a week - when actually putting in 60+). I was actually told that it is expected of me to work at least 10-12 hours a day without recompense. - extremely weak, inexperienced junior managers that don't understand the meaning of leadership, be wary of this and understand that you may have a very young, somewhat entitled reporting manager who will learn the importance of listening, communicating, and team building at your expense (even if they mean well, they don't understand what's needed to cultivate skill sets) - plagiarism plagiarism and more plagiarism : most of the product delivered by expert knowledge from a team is derived from unquoted sources, and rarely is there a technical expert or subject matter expert on the team who actually understands what is being shared. Most projects have the motions of a middle-school class research project, which is never vetted by an expert (just a senior manager who has to like the ring of it). - micromanagement stems from poor and uncertain leadership, as per notes above: if you are experienced and thrive by efficiently producing high quality work, you may go crazy at the constant stops and control measures to ensure that you don't work too independently (and every penned word is nervously scrutinized - because when projects are behind, which is always the case, the tanker-of-coffee-a-day leadership freaks out at quite literally everything that you do, down to your last breath as you walk out the door)

1.0
Nov 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They provide coffee to their employees.

Cons

They actively hack all their employees personal devices and their clients networks so do not connect your devices to any accenture networks or networks at the hotels you are staying at.

1.0
Nov 2, 2017

Avoid Like The Plague

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They do work for big companies

Cons

Where to begin. They do not value anyone, promote incompetence, and pay less than jobs warrant. In my multiple jobs (that were taken over by them, I wouldn't work for them unless I had to), they proceeded to invariably run the projects into the ground within 2-4 years of getting the contract. They start by hiring people at normal rates, and set up a teachable program. Once set, they begin to hire new people, and have them trained by the competent employees. Once the project is in full swing, they start reducing fringe benefits, freedom, and pretty much anything that the original hires enjoyed. After driving them out, they begin hiring even more people at cutthroat rates, most of which are naive or underqualified while they set up people in foreign countries to take over the work. By the end of the 2-4 years, almost all of the work is being done by remarkably unqualified hordes of people in foreign countries who are getting paid peanuts. Do not work for them. Definitely do not hire them if you want anything that can be considered quality. If they are taking over your project, find another job. You'll regret it if you don't. If you do ignore my advice and begin working for them, look for the subtle changes. You might not notice it immediately, but one day you'll wake up and realize the job is miserable. Hindsight is 20/20.

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