Accenture reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(177,255 total reviews)
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Julie Sweet

72% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Accenture has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 177,255 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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177K reviews
3.0
Nov 24, 2014
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Pros

Accenture is a great place to learn about consulting on a global scale. The health insurance plans are affordable and strong and 25 days of vacation is a big plus.

Cons

You will dedicate your life to your project and be told by management to only record 40 hours worked in a week despite this being clearly against Accenture policy. The bonus and merit structure is a complete joke. You will be told about solid bonuses and raises when you receive your verbal offer, but they do not come to fruition. Despite turning out very good numbers for FY 2014 and increasing the stock dividend 10%, the majority of employees did not receive a raise this year and bonuses averaged a paltry 2% for those at the Consultant level. I expect extremely high attrition in 2015.

2.0
Apr 16, 2024

Lost its soul

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Pros

As in many organizations you come across some really great people. If you have a great manager you have autonomy and flexibility, although this experience is not consistent across the business.

Cons

Accenture did used to be truly human, people felt valued, people were recognized for a job well done, and people had the freedom to be creative to do the right thing. Since Julie Sweet this has become harder and harder as the biggest driving factor is not client or people its reducing cost and driving revenue, and only keeping shareholders happy! (and not forgetting the senior leader promotions and big bonuses, most people have not had a pay rise in 3 - 4 years and promotions are by exception only). This has all become the goal at all costs, and people are simply burning out or leaving. The recent HR transformation has been ill thought through at an operational level, senior leaders are afraid to get their hands dirty and dont seem to respond to the state of their teams, they are not brave enough to say we have made a mistake and this is not working in the way we thought. The ambition to revolutionize our organization is breaking it, and this is something they sell to our clients! Right now i would avoid at all cost. There is little to no work life balance, a management team so far removed from the business its steering a ship they dont know how to drive.

1.0
Mar 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- It’s a job that pays - Access to trainings

Cons

You will be treated like dirt probably. I’ve worked at Big 4 and was honestly treated better, had a better working relationship with upper management, and wasn’t treated poorly. I was given a bait and switch to leave a stable job to join this company and was never once put on a project that was relevant to what I was hired for. I was told to just find another job within the company by a certain deadline and if I couldn’t get another role, I’d be let go. Not really sure how you expect someone to find ANOTHER job at a company that isn’t what you were hired for and then put the onus on them to make it happen after hiring that person. Might as well just work for myself then. Absolute worst job experience of my career and the “people lead” I was given was a completely arrogant, unhelpful person who half the time would just ignore me. WAY better employers out there. Not worth it unless you’re just looking to use them for something.

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