Avanade reviews

As the company is trying to grow, focus is on sales but not enough on people. Company is teaming up with Accenture more these days, which affects the company culture. Rank and file consultants can feel treated like pawns by senior management. Career model has gone through several rounds of changes recently. But it all felt like 'nominal' changes, not much real stuff there. With those so-called metrics in place, management has short-term behavior because the metrics are done annually.

Avanade has trouble deciding if it cares more about its consultants or its customers. Lots of movement and reorganization at the leadership level, with constant reminders to the rank-and-file that it "doesn't change your day job", plus heavy focus on customers leaves many consultants feeling disconnected from the organization. Talks the talk when it comes to collaboration and sharing between employees, but doesn't walk the walk - the community discussion groups (supported purely by the goodwill of the many smart consultants) are a good resource but don't expect an environment where you can work on and contribute meaningful assets unless you can turn them into money trees immediately. Swears up and down that they are not becoming Accenture, which appears less and less true every day.