Anyone Here Work for Accenture?

I did my grad programme there, good place to work and build up invaluable soft skills, however pay was lower relative to the industry I was a consultant in, but that's the challenge a company like Accenture will have who consult across nearly every industry. I jumped across having built up a decent network across the industry. If you are proactive, it's a place you can easily get autonomous and visibility in.

I found the social life really fun as well.

You can't go much wrong if it's a grad scheme you are after.
 
londonbairn said:
I did my grad programme there, good place to work and build up invaluable soft skills, however pay was lower relative to the industry I was a consultant in, but that's the challenge a company like Accenture will have who consult across nearly every industry. I jumped across having built up a decent network across the industry. If you are proactive, it's a place you can easily get autonomous and visibility in.

I found the social life really fun as well.

You can't go much wrong if it's a grad scheme you are after.
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No it's a management position. The pay seems quite good, but it's a different environment to what I'm used to, which sparked the initial interest.
 
Nope but I spent a week working in their Paris office going through their invoices.

Looked a pretty standard office/boring place to work, full of suits sitting on their company provided IBM laptops not saying much.

But the women were so hot omg especially the receptionists!
 
panthro said:
No it's a management position. The pay seems quite good, but it's a different environment to what I'm used to, which sparked the initial interest.
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The thing that consultancy can give you is amazing industrial specific oversight and skills which I have found benefits me to this day. I was in the Investment Banking area and got direct exposure to diverse clients from Risk Managers to trading desk heads.

Again depends on what industry it's in, but it can be a lucrative career if you make it up to the higher echelons.

Also the travel, I know some people don't mind it, but some do. For me it was not an issue as the clients were City based.

Training was good too!
 
londonbairn said:
The thing that consultancy can give you is amazing industrial specific oversight and skills which I have found benefits me to this day. I was in the Investment Banking area and got direct exposure to diverse clients from Risk Managers to trading desk heads.

Again depends on what industry it's in, but it can be a lucrative career if you make it up to the higher echelons.

Also the travel, I know some people don't mind it, but some do. For me it was not an issue as the clients were City based.

Training was good too!
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Thanks, that's quite interesting. They are supposedly increasing their oil and gas consultancy division. I'm waiting to see a job spec with all the specifics but it does sound quite interesting.
 
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Theophany said:
I work or Accenture. Aside from the daily paddling that my line manager insists upon meting out on my buttocks, it's a pretty cool place to work.
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bare buttocks or over trousers and is your boss a woman ?

These are important questions which will determine if I apply for a job there or not.
 
panthro said:
Thanks, that's quite interesting. They are supposedly increasing their oil and gas consultancy division. I'm waiting to see a job spec with all the specifics but it does sound quite interesting.
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Is it M1/M2/M3 and what office? People often say to me that the best times to join consultancies are either as a grad or as a manager and above. You could do two years there, get 3/4 projects under your belt and either work your way up to Senior manager if you love it, or use the contacts/reputation you built up with clients to move back into industry, especially if you are at a plateau.

Not sure what the Oil and Gas section is like, but generally there are plenty of projects with fantastic client exposure there, and heaps of internal resources from functional models to target operating models that are invaluable.
 
Yes, differing grades of Manager position. Trust me if you want, happy to share my experience and I may know some guys still there that overlap with Oil/Gas as I done some work in Commodities Front Office there.
 
londonbairn said:
Yes, differing grades of Manager position. Trust me if you want, happy to share my experience and I may know some guys still there that overlap with Oil/Gas as I done some work in Commodities Front Office there.
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Great thanks, I might do if I progress it any further :)
 
I believe it has the standard work hard, pay reasonably well with good benefits, strong bonus driven mentality, and high attrition rate (cut the bottom 20% chaff from the wheat).
End result is a competitive environment consisting of mostly enemies rather than a cooperative team environment.
 
I believe it has the standard work hard, pay reasonably well with good benefits, strong bonus driven mentality, and high attrition rate (cut the bottom 20% chaff from the wheat).
End result is a competitive environment consisting of mostly enemies rather than a cooperative team environment.
 
D.P. said:
I believe it has the standard work hard, pay reasonably well with good benefits, strong bonus driven mentality, and high attrition rate (cut the bottom 20% chaff from the wheat).
End result is a competitive environment consisting of mostly enemies rather than a cooperative team environment.
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D.P. said:
I believe it has the standard work hard, pay reasonably well with good benefits, strong bonus driven mentality, and high attrition rate (cut the bottom 20% chaff from the wheat).
End result is a competitive environment consisting of mostly enemies rather than a cooperative team environment.
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You can say that again!
 
I've worked with quite a few of them over the last 2 years and I'd echo the comment re a high attrition rate. As one of their seniors said to me "if you're not moving on, you're moving out".

ability wise I found them a mixed bag. Some had all the talk but were hopeless at getting results, others were brilliant.
 
Catanonia said:
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

As if any sane person would spill the beans on an employer on a public forum and face loosing thier job.

You failed the 1st interview question, close the door behind you :p
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Sure they would, this is 2013, we have VPN's, proxies and tor anonymity services galore. :D
 
I've worked with a lot from the PACS side of Accenture and more through the TPP/SystmOne side ... some bang tidy females in the Leeds HQ!!!

Infact, I'm sure the recruitment officer in Leeds is a bit of a perv, if she aint a 7/10 at least, they dont get hired lol
 
I worked for a company that got bought by Accenture about four years ago.

I can only talk about them from a software developer's point of view but they're the last company that I would want to work for again. The pay and conditions were poor but what really got to me was how the company doesn't take any pride in its work. If you're senior, your entire career revolves around winning work rather than doing work. You're presented to the clients to impress them with your technical knowledge but once the work is won, they hire a bunch of enthusiastic but inexperienced grads or people in India to actually do the work. This is the primary reason why virtually every IT project that Accenture is involved with goes horribly wrong.

The attrition rate was high in our department but it certainly wasn't the bottom 20% leaving.
 
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