Avanade reviews

Top heavy -- Way too many managers in every service line. This creates a lot of clumsy processes and also hampers career growth for everyone else. Depending on whether you are in consulting or ATS service line, noticeable difference in organizational respect and in benefits. Career Manger role is mostly a formality; your manager won't care as long as your billing hours are high and your project manager did not give you bad rating. They lack organizational maturity and/or backbone to resolve your issues. Promotional opportunity depends on how well you click with your regional and service line leadership. Avanade delivery managers try to imitate Accenture PMs. I don't understand why every project needs clones. Most of these managers don't seem to care about the team's wants and needs and behave like slave masters. They are on the project mainly because of their chargeability; not to add value. They will nickel and dime you on salary negotiations.

Its very difficult to get the company to send you for training courses. Pay scale is a bit below market value. Staff is expected to work overtime without compensation. Significant levels of dissatisfaction in role assignments and growth opportunities which have resulted in high attrition rates. Management appears to take little interest in staff job satisfaction. The poor medical coverage can lead to significant cost to employees in deducatables and copays. To get promoted, your career manager (immediate supervisor) need to push for your promotion. Usually this works well. However, when a career manager is overworked, apathetic, or the attrition rate is high and a staff member is assigned a new career manager every 3 months, it becomes very difficult to get a promotion.