I am obviously sharing my personal view and my perspective after working for 7 years here. I am writing things being unbiased and true to my heart:
* In it's core, Accenture is a service-based, head-count based, body-shopping company with posh appearances and luxury talks about technology, data analytics, machine learning, automation and AI.
* At high level, Accenture is a company led by a CEO who clearly is a misandrist or more accurately, a female chauvinist. I'm all for gender equality. However, you can't penalize hard-working, talented, motivated men in the name of women empowerment. She did that and it simply created a toxic environment. Her new policies have caused a lot of friction and insubordination in every team across the org. Her impulsive and pre-matured decisions while making new policies clearly lacking proper strategy will cost everyone sailing in this gigantic, over-crowded ship. Not only employees but also their families suffer due to her recent changes.
* For talented, growth oriented, career focused people, know that Accenture is filled with old, tired, lethargic, non-upgraded leaders who are full of politics and ride their high horses. They are neither result-oriented nor growth oriented. They get their fat bonus and company shares and are happy playing golf on weekends.
* It's an over-crowded chaos. (700K+ employees worldwide). You being the primary controller of your destiny is a far fetched idea.
* 5% of people are those who actually work and earn the bread for the company and 80% are unproductive leads, Managers, Sr. Managers, leaderships, HR overheads, process facilitators, talent specialists, travel agents etc.. who do less than a post-man and just send e-mails from end point to other. Yes. They'll take credit for sure. Rest 15% are floating pool who keep getting hired (with anticipation of new projects) and fired (when the new projects aren't signed)
* Heavily hit by recent attrition trend. I'm not kidding but literally there are more managers than workers. Work of 1 person is showcased by 10 people as 'their' work in 10 different places. 1 person had one career-counsellor manager, one project manager, HR manager and one people manager and sometimes an onshore and offshore manager! So totally 4 to 5 managers for 1 worker! This is REALITY. I am not joking. You are better off free-lancing than being here. At least there, you will be in control of your actions and consequences.
* Company talks about 'equality' but higher positions get business class treatment and lower position gets economy class treatment. Lower positions are shown their place even for basic social necessities like health insurance. A senior official who can afford more gets higher coverage for less cost but a fresher gets less coverage for high premium! So much for equality!
* All in all, it's a good pit-stop destination if you're a fresher. If you are serious about learning and growing, stay away. It's a TRAP. Once you spend more than 3 years here, you are stuck for lifetime! You won't be up-to market standards and won't have latest skills and hence can't jump this toxic org.
* Special mention to senior managers from 'Indian-origin' and their hierarchical, age-old mindset of boot polishing!. I would stay as far away as possible. They bring poor people from third world countries to the US with high aspirations and promises, suck the life out of them and use them until they can take the 'credits' but also expect them to be 'grateful'. They are thrown away if they ever ask for good bonus, fair rewards or recognition. (of course like any other IT company). So, most of the people you would interact on a daily basis are passive aggressive, stressed, poor, low-self-esteem people who are probably struggling with a side hustle along with their full-time job. You would initially get a over-humble response but later regret being in this org. (happens all the time in every project)
* Basically, everyone I've met here is unhappy. But they put up a big smile cuz they have to!. They have given a part of their life for accenture and now they want to sit back, relax, attend meetings, talk about their cute dogs and exotic cuisine and have their pay-checks coming. So, imagine your fate if you actually want to learn and grow!
* Diversity is highly advertised but followed only on postures and bill boards. Institutional racism is clearly visible and felt but of-course as it happens to only non-privileged people, everyone would say it's not real and just a mind-set.
* If you are in the US, if you're an out-sider, you get condescended by the locals. If you're a local, you get to work with people who know nothing about US life or work culture. It's a thorn with pointy end on both sides!
* The list goes on if I have to rant and nit pick; bottom line is. In every service-based org, your experience and luck depends on what kind of project and which team you'll end up after a year or 2.
Sometimes it can be good but most of the time, with a mammoth sized org which keeps acquiring new orgs and builds toxic work culture, it's not good for talented people.
Use the points above and choose wisely!
