No clear reporting structures. Easy to be overstimulated or disoriented from multiple dotted line bosses.
Upon hire, you're assigned a career advisor. Typically, people take on this responsibility to help themselves jump to the next level. So basically, you sign up for something you're not necessarily passionate about to advance your career. It's a lottery on who you end up with.
The work is not designed for regions to support each other. When staffing projects, you are relegated to your region which marginalizes the talent you can bring to your client.
Different rules and processes across regions
Direct = Avanade is not dependent on Accenture. If you are a seller pursuing indirect business, it's mostly good unless Accenture is weak in the account. In that case they will try to make their year via your hard work.
Indirect = means Avanade is dependent on Accenture. If you are working in a region that relies on indirect to make their number, you will see countless bad behaviors. Don't expect support from your leadership team. Avanade will turn its head when it sees any wrongdoing. Do expect to be bullied, intimidated and undermined by Accenture.
Ambiguous processes that change each time you use them.
Incompetence at high levels.
Exceedingly unprofessional work environment. Sadly, some of the resources have been in role since the company was born and simply don't know any better. They just know how to make the machine give them what's needed in the moment. This is why new talent is unable to last.
Accenture FTEs openly treat Avanade FTEs with inferiority and this is supported or deliberately overlooked.
If you don't cooperate with Accenture MDs they will try to alienate you from the account by taking you out of the loop. If you don't submit to their bidding your job will be in jeopardy.
I experienced the breaking of multiple workplace laws by both Accenture and Avanade employees (i.e. racist comments, gender bias, etc.).
Once of the worse places I have ever worked that has the potential to be one of the best.
Avoid this place until it can clean up its model and remove some of teh baggage in leadership.
