Avanade reviews

TLDR: New hires might not get real development experience and might be put on non development roles like being a BA. Also salary is considerably lower than other companies for software developers. To be honest I don't believe anyone should come to Avanade for a job out of college, it is very difficult to get the right experience you want. For example during ignition (the training for new graduate hires), they tell software engineers that their firt project might not be any development. Now if you hire a software engineer but do not give them any software development projects then what is the point? Management is also not the best, and many of the managers don't keep up to date with new technologies or seem to be able to actually develop. Many of the actual development work seems to be outsourced as well, leading to the software developers here mantaining more of a managment role.

- Project managers and scrum masters here have no technical background, but call the shots, not a team lead - High chance of getting stuck on a multi-year project and it's near impossible to get off, even after putting in 2 years. - Non-technical people are viewed as more important than software developers - They don't care if the work aligns to what you want to do, they will put you on any project regardless of your desired tech stack - Your boss won't be on the same project as you, will have no idea what you're doing day-to-day, but they still evaluate you. - Bills client for your overtime, but you are not entitled to any of that - Owner Accenture is held on a pedestal and can do no wrong - Frequently told you must put company first - lots and lots of internal politics - most projects are talked up to sound amazing but in reality are quite mundane