I joined the "Software Engineering Graduate Scheme" but it was no such thing. Our starting group of graduates got split down the middle into technical-ish and admin; however all technical-ish graduates got put into a training course for a specific specialism that there were not enough roles for in the actual company.
I had low expectations for Accenture being the MegaCorp that it is - however, its brand of "software consulting" means that consultant BS to clients trickles down into the bottom line.
Other cons:
- Terrible management and "talent specialist" employees: If you have any technical skill such as specific programming languages/stacks or software then there will be no attempt made to utilise you, as the people managing the role conveyor belt don't have knowledge about tech roles or skills. Exhibit A being the role adverts using "Java" and "Javascript" interchangeably... and seemingly never being noticed. This means you'll just get pushed into any old role that sounds "about right," but will risk you encountering Accenture's Kiss of Death.
- Their adverts regarding "New Applied Now" could not be further from the truth (but obviously all career adverts for companies like this are just fluff). As the various technical implementations I got to see were huge spaghetti code monstrosities described as "systems" built with various older languages using (from what I'd seen) non-existent IDEs. Which were, due to longer projects, Frankensteined together in a panic-inducing fashion.
- First few weeks you get to hear of the fabled "diamond" (dinosaur) clients. It very quickly becomes apparent that these are simply companies that have invested too much time and money in contracts with Accenture to pull out and make a mess in their shareholder's hair.
- As with all companies based in tech, management tend to have either lost their technical knowledge or had none prior to begin with. So you get to deal with explaining to consultants why you can't just copy and paste a couple wiki pages on "Machine Learning" (no more specific than that of course) into a PowerPoint and submit that to clients as a "sprint plan."
