Avanade reviews

Lots of travel, Had to work with various technologies (no clear focus), Side-projects from Accenture

Everybody wants to make Accenture Managers happy rather than making the Client happy The only people to face the clients are the Analysts and Consultants while often Managers, Group Managers and especially Director level people usually sit in the offices away from the clients. Of late culture has deteriorated remarkably, your charge-ability or IT intellectual Assets or client appreciation doesn't matter, what matters for promotion is weather you have spent time with the director or group manager on some in-house project. It's a normal practice to see people getting promoted when they come-up with offer to resign or when Accenture asks promoting the employee for not putting the project at risk for fear of loosing a resource on a critical project Very few direct projects. Shark-eat-shark culture thrives -- As is the case in most consulting companies. Many ex-Accenture people get dumped at Avanade. Annual review systems isn't really what it claims to be. People with 3 or 4 years of consecutive highest review rating and IT asset creation often go unnoticed.