Accenture reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(177,457 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 177,457 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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3.0
Nov 3, 2022
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Pros

Within the Infinity Works arm of the Accenture Beast, there are some amazing Engineers, Consultants, and People, that want to do right by the clients and right by the people within IW. There is a wide range of Clients that Infinity Works works with, meaning that there genuinely is a lot of opportunity for varied work. Everyone is approachable on the IW side of the business, there isn's a single person within IW that would not be open to a one-to-one conversation and discussion.

Cons

Infinity Works is now properly part of Accenture. If you're into the Corporate approach, then you'll definitely get a good exposure to that. Many of the people focused elements of IW have sadly been replaced by impersonal 'one-size-fits-all' approaches prescribed by Accenture. More recently there has been a significant shift to a 'profits over people' mentality when it comes to the assignment of consultants to clients. The suitability of the assignment is starting to focus much more on margins and less on the needs of the client or individual. It's worth noting that this is a Corporate push from the Accenture side of things rather than a grassroots culture change. Progression opportunities within IW is generally trending negatively. Across all levels of experience, Associates, Senior Associates, Consultants, all are blocked from progression through arbitrary date-based-gates irrespective of the merits shown by the individual. The informal and individualised approach IW took prior to the ACN buyout i think is muddying the waters in ACN's Formal world. There isn't any notion of a a 'career framework' that would help people work out what is going on. ACN's tooling and systems are atrocious. You might consider this to be a minor gripe, but when you have 3 different tools for what are essentially all timesheets, tools that are riddled with bugs or just don't work, and people on ACN's side that chase you down should some obscure undocumented process not be followed perfectly using these tools, it moves from a minor gripe to a daily frustration. Possibly projecting here, but moral generally seemed to be trending downwards as well. Whilst it's an industry that frequently sees people moving laterally, IW appears to be struggling to retain the amazing people that it has. Whole teams are moving on to less corporate environments, meaning clients are put in difficult positions and having to pay a fair whack for their replacements. It puts client relationships on the back-foot whilst also making things extra difficult to the consultants that still remain.

1.0
Oct 6, 2022

Evil

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Pros

There is nothing to recommend this organisation. The pay is OK by industry standards but you won't last long enough to collect much of it.

Cons

A culture of lies and workplace bullying. It is common to see people persecuted and ultimately fired by their managers simply inventing lies about them, their performance and their conduct. If your face doesn't fit, you'll be out within a few weeks or months. Having a face that fits is tricky to do - but you'll need to be "one of the boys" to even stand a chance. It's noticeable how female and disabled people are particularly singled out for abuse. Even if you survive that, you'll struggle to deliver since you'll be on a team heavily loaded with graduates. All the experienced talent has long since been driven out or walked away. Leaders are a lazy self satisfied clique who turn a blind eye to all this. Expect them to never speak to you but speak only to their mates who will "represent" you (see above). Expect to be heavily gaslighted, with the organisation full of lip service to inclusion, fairness, employee support and diversity in public whilst gleefully pursuing the aforementioned vindictiveness in private. It's an object lesson in how a successful organisation has gone first complacent, then toxic. It only took a few short years.

5.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

When I joined Accenture, I did through the Apprentice Program. This is a year-long "job interview", putting you into a usual position at Accenture for an Associate level, and if you meet the business criteria, you join! If not, you don't, but you have a whole year of experience at a company like this. The benefits are affordable, the PTO allowances are huge, most projects are work from home. and it's overall a great jumpstart to a career in tech.

Cons

While my cons are few, it's important for anyone joining this program. You are not gonna have your hand held. You will be expected to login at your usual times, you have to do the work with efficiency, you'll be expected to be available throughout the work day; this may all seem obvious. But for people, like me, that are new to an environment like this, do not get comfortable. Time will catch up to you, and while people will help you succeed, you have to take that initative.

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