Avanade reviews

Little say over which projects you get staffed to You must be the one looking out for your career. "Career Advisers" are more concerned with you being chargeable in something irrelevant to your department than actually advancing your career.

Internally, no one even pretends there is work/life balance. If you're under a certain level, kiss your evenings goodbye. Your new best friends are offshore. This is a lifestyle, not a job. Regardless of the success of your project or happiness of your client, your performance is evaluated based on the perceptions of others and your willingness to bow to process that doesn't further either a) the success of your project or b) the happiness of your client. If you don't fall in line, you don't move up. Salary is known to be short of market standards, however this is acceptable because, unless you plan on being a lifer at Avanade, you'll find an opportunity to leave for a significant (25%+) raise. I found the more senior folks I worked with, the less creative and fun the role became. There's even a push to make the on-shore folks just act as champions of requirement documentation and letting offshore do all the fun parts.