Accenture reviews

• EXPERIENCED HIRES | It is well known throughout Accenture that the retention rate for experienced hires is problematic. Accenture does not have a successful strategy for integrating experienced hires. When new projects move through the pipeline, new staffing opportunities are not automatically available. Engagement Managers typically onboard Senior Managers who they currently/previously worked with. Senior Managers typically onboard Managers who they currently/previously worked with, and Managers typically onboard consultants/analysts who they currently/previously worked with... homegrown consultants steeped in the "Accenture Way". • MANAGEMENT | Beware of managers not trained in resource/talent management or project/program management. No one speaks up regarding employee bias/abuse/discrimination. This happens way too often! >>>There is little diversity in Senior Manager level and above. • AVAILABLE ROLES | Pressured to take roles not related to the job/role hired for. Not automatically staffed to project assignments! You will have to apply for projects internally, go through internal and/or client interviews to be staffed. Your colleagues are always your competitors. Not a true team environment because you MUST compete for projects. Staffing assignments does not necessarily go to the most qualified candidate, but to the candidate who is well connected through internal networking. • PERFORMANCE REVIEWS | Management is supposed to define performance criteria for each resource staffed to a project. This step is routinely ignored. As a result I've seen countless consultants/managers blamed for project errors they were not responsible for, nor given appropriate expectations for. >>> 360 reviews desperately needed!!! • INTERNAL NETWORKING | Internal "Networking" is used as a smoke-screen to cover the internal practice of bypassing qualified candidates and ignoring workplace diversity.

Pay is 30% lower than average in the market for the exact same position; if you though decide to apply, bear in mind that in Prague they have had an outrageous "salary freeze" for the last 5 years, and that annual salary rises above 20% are not allowed by a strong HR internal policy. Put another way, you get in, you eventually get promoted to a position of higher responsibility, and yet your salary may increase 2-5%... or nothing, because of "budget issues"... Very rarely they approve 10% - forget about the 20%. Competitors pay annual bonuses twice a year, this company in Prague does only once. Meal vouchers are worth only 40czk net per working day. 1 out of 10 employees do not receive an annual bonus whatsoever, "as per HR policy" again. Beyond the described remuneration Cons: No career growth at all; in interviews you may be told a different story, in reality they expect you to settle down for years in your current position or leave and hire someone cheaper. If your job is posted as All as "associate, clerk, analyst" run away. These positions are internally labeled as "button-pushers", since the company vision is 'Automation'. Those "Constant trainings and career developments" they tout in interviews, are basically 1 hour trainings 1 per month to learn things that make Accenture compliant with their regulators, not trainings that truly add you knowledge transferable to your actual job or any other job in the future. Transfers to other countries? - Forget it, managers hardly support you in such an endeavor. Cramped offices that resemble foreign call centers. Very bad atmosphere with colleagues from the newly acquired company - you may get in, do exactly the same job as your peer, and though be paid half of his salary. True story.