Overhyped Accenture Strategy - Anonymous employee Accenture Employee Review

Senior manager generally cares more about their own P&L than actual client needs. They will definitely try to push business to customers based on their recent experience. - Silo mentality. Accenture Strategy, Accenture Management Consulting, Accenture Technology compete with each other for same clients. Same goes for senior management. - Huge amounts of time selling instead of delivering. - Staffing is based on pecking order and favoritism. No Godfather = no staffing. Also based on prior projects, so end up pigeon-holed and specializing on early projects. - Stingy expense policy, spartan office. - Each country is quasi independent, except for Singapore that does some cross selling. - Promotions are primarily based on politics. Eg. Banding processes is quite subjective - Singapore office mostly comprised by non-southeast Asian foreigners with limited knowledge (and local business connections) of the regional market. - Pretentious colleagues within Strategy division. Most Strategy people would refuse to talk to non strategy people. - Deficient on-boarding process. Prior experience outside of consulting is not valued. - No systems in place to on board experienced hires and/or working parents. - Want to hire MBAs and yet don't value their experience. Very few MBAs overall. - Slower career path that other firms (eg. 3-5 years per role). - Lack of strategy projects, most of staff on the bench. Some of strategy staff has never been staffed in strategy projects. - High attrition rates. ~30% per year