Accenture reviews

Let's see here. First, to be clear, I was with federal services, so I was a federal contractor. We entered a period in which we had to rebid for a contract. Normal. Happens with regularity in federal work. In fact, you might go so far as to say people know when they have to rebid! (because they do). Well, when time for us approached, the entire joint took the air of a chicken slaughterhouse. Headless chickens everywhere. Leadership said initially, it will be two months! Meanwhile they stopped hiring people, stopped doing travel, stopped doing everything that they couldn't charge to the client (save for a few things that I'll get to later). I don't want to write an essay, but my point is that no one was prepared. What was supposed to be 2 months ended up being almost 8. This place is gaga about diversity. They will literally pay out a higher bonus the more diverse someone is. Maybe that's normal, but it is repugnant. They want half of the workforce to be women by 2020 or something like that. They also want many more women managers. Men, who lack diversity cred, think about what this means for your promotion potential at the company. Unqualified managers. A mentor pointed out to me that a manager can be very successful and not be a leader. Boy is that true. The only "leaders" are executives. I don't mean that in what I experience, I mean that I never heard a manager be referred to as a leader. For what I said in the second paragraph, you get some really, really bad managers. People who hit the promotion elevator, not by being good at their job and capable of managing a group of people well, but for other reasons. And since they're not terribly great at their job and bad at managing, they stay at the company. Weird diversity oriented programs. I've never seen so many special events and days set aside at a company for diversity events as I have at AFS. They won't spend AFS money on their employees, but they will hire out fancy halls for IWD. Unwillingness to develop technical skills. Sure, sometimes the best way to learn a program is "hands on" but when the "hands on" system is live and essential, should you really have people figuring out things as they go along? If you ask for a book or training you will get told that they either don't have budget, or that you can ask and they'll see what happens. Meanwhile peers you work with get sent to classes. And speaking of books, people have a weird hang up about not using them. Lack of commitment to people. Friends of mine moved hundreds of miles and across several states to work where we did. Oh look we lost the contract and we knew we were, and now you're "on the bench" but don't worry! AFS takes care of people who are on the bench. As long as they're above entry level, that is.

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.