Avanade reviews

- Career Management: You will be assigned a career manager as a matter of luck when you first join. Your career at Avanade will shape entirely based on this relationship.The manager is not changeable even if you have issues; you are expected to resolve them between the two of you. Many promotions are based on secret deals & fabrication (like employess threatening to leave with offer letters in hand) while hard working employees will be given a random reason & will be kept wondering for years, what they did wrong. You will not succeed here if you are NOT a self promoter. You are also laddered against your colleagues, so you will find the ones you are helping are actually working in competition with you; often bad mouthing you scared you will be promoted and not them. - Work/Life balance: If you don't push it you will lose it. Having Accenture as parent means they will try to bully you into their work culture which often means sitting down on client sites till late to show you are committed (whether you are doing something productive or not, don't matter). - Roles: Avanade depends almost entirely on Accenture for projects. As such a lot of roles you will be asked to do will be 'filler' roles which 'may' have a tech element that Accenture would make money on. You will end up doing roles with no alignment to your specialities and a year later you will be told you didn't do a project in your speciality so no promotion or growth. This will happen year after year if you are not careful. Though you may see great clients on your CV, you will also look back and regret the roles you did as many roles you will not take up if you were looking for a job independently. They care about 'chargeabiliy'; not your career. Take roles with Caution! - Overall Experience: As per the point above, you will find 23 years old Accenture industry experts managing Avanade experienced hires with almost 23 years of experience. They will do best to keep you shielded from the client as they are 'trained' in corporate talk by Accenture. They produce processes, procedures, presentations & do the client engagement. You will do the actual work as the hidden tech monkeys! - Microsoft/Accenture: Your loyalty lies only to learn Microsoft. But in reality you will only work on technologies that Accenture make money on, so your loyalty in turn lies wiith Accenture. Relationship with Microsoft is just a con, they mostly don't work alongside Avanade due to obviously MCS being in direct competition with Avanade! - Company Direction/Hires: It changes more often than the colour of pants I wear. They recently got rid of a lot of founding members and senior employees, which to me seems like a suicide mission. They used to hire only experienced Microsoft geeks and was a place where MVPs had pride. I have seen all sorts from great to really unbelievable silly people you would think will be hired by such a prestigious organisation (once great).

First, the work space is god-awful. I've interviewed at least five dozen companies and their work-space is by far the worst. Never thought a software company would be located in Class C office space. Second, when you do actually "get a job" at Avanade, that just gives you the opportunity to interview more for real jobs at Microsoft. If you don't pass an interview within a month you will be fired. Third, you better take any first job that comes at you at Microsoft. As you might have guessed, this leads to majority of the employees being dissatisfied with their work. Fourth, you couldn't possibly find a more low paying job. Go ahead and try! I dare you! Low $80K for a senior developer!