Employer:	Accenture
Group name:	-	Former name:	-
Select country :	United States	End of employment:	current
Region / State:	Illinois	Job status:	Full time
District / City / Town:	Chicago	Industry:	Information Technologies
Branch/Store/Subsidiary:	-	Job Category:	Consulting
Review ID:	5663	Recommend:	No
Alias:	ALIAS	Rating:	1.7

EMPLOYER IN GENERAL

Accenture is nothing but a sweatshop for IT consultants. Long hours (12+ hour days) plus unpaid travel time ensures that you have little personal time or life outside of work. The salaries are average or below comparable jobs at other organizations. Accenture seems to not care about retaining talent and attrition is high. The company has >130,000 employees so there is always someone else available to fill the role of someone who has quit. There performance evaluation technique based on rankings against peers is absurd.

INFRASTRUCTURE / FACILITIES
All Accenture offices themselves are average for the consulting industry.

WORKPLACE / COLLEAGUES
Most of the time employees are working at a client site. Sometimes adequate facilities such as desk space and phones are not readily available. Many times consultants will all be crammed together around a conference room table.

LEADERSHIP / MANAGEMENT

Horrible leadership and management. Accenture leadership (managers, senior managers, senior executives) is not well trained in management skills. They are almost always old IT guys who were promoted to the level. There is a huge lack of human resources skills on project teams. Networking is key to success at Accenture to the point were incompetent people are promoted based on who they know. This is directly related to their employee evaluation process. Sometimes employees are asked to be dishonest in order to please clients.

COMPENSATION / BENEFITS
Income is average or below average for comparable jobs in the industry. 25 days of paid time off is a plus, but employees may be too busy to ever use it.

WORKING HOURS
My weekly working hours on average…	> 55 hours
On average work starts at 8 AM and finishes by about 8 or 9 PM. Some projects require longer hours to meet deadlines which can mean working 80+ hours a week including weekends. Vacations can be difficult to take. Taking too much vacation can have a negative career impact.

TRAINING / CAREER
There is never time for training. Career planning is inadequate. Each employee is given a 'career counselor' to help them plan their career. The counselor is usually too bogged down in their own project work to care about counseling other employees.

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