Avanade Group Program Manager reviews

Nobody comes to the office anymore like they did in the first 5 years of the company. This means there is no culture for new people in Chicago. There was a reorg recently which may have changed this, but the delivery model meant people could get staffed anywhere. There was no mechanism for the regional GMs to keep their folks on local projects. Again, may be changing which would be a huge improvement. The company is largely made up of people who've been there 8+ years and people with 2 years or less tenure. The issue is that it is about who you know and how well you get informal sponsorship. You have to know the folks in middle-to-senior positions who have been there for a while. That makes it incredibly hard for new people to get recognized if you didn't have that "amazing" project. Still did stack ranking when I was there. HR has become less personable and now "all business". It's sad because they are great people on a personal level. Now they are basically robots carrying out orders. Sigh. Everybody just got silly new titles. Avanade is notorious for creating inflated and confusing titles that are ultimately meaningless to the customer. It's embarrassing to introduce yourself to the customer.

Owned by Big Brother Accenture and the are taking over the culture, lost the Microsoft culture which was part of startup. 75% of projects are run by Accenture and this limits growth above manager level. Accenture treats Avanade resources as second class citizens. A lot of new upper management is sourced from Accenture.