Ambitious people, please look elsewhere - Consultant Avanade Employee Review

2.0
Jan 12, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- timely payment of salary - remote work possibilty - Microsoft products & certifications - actually a good place if you want to apply your MS technology developer skillset, as business/project consultant rather look elsewhere

Cons

- if have you ambitions, superiors will try to divert you from your goals and slow down your progress in the company to keep margins high - biased promotion process - no innovation engagements - it is quite likely that you re not going to work on topics you were hired for - Cross department (e.g. Advisory vs. Delivery) & cross company (with Accenture) fights over engagements and project staffings in order to meet chargeability targets - complex matrix organization exhausts people since they got to work with internal department, projects, Accenture and Microsoft - virtually unknown company, likely to be completely absorbed by Accenture and branded over as Accenture Microsoft Business Group - Main business driver is the still ongoing shift to modern workplace and O365 cloud, once those engagements dry up, the company is going to struggle to acquire other sustainable sources of income - advisory services struggle for signifcance - unqualified management overhead (stems from bad hiring and retention practices)

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The projects are really large so you'll get great experience. The benefits are good. The people are, for the most part, really nice at the lower level.

Cons

Always restructuring. You don't actually work for Avanade you work for Accenture under the name of Avanade. Accenture is always trying to absorb or downsize Avanade and even the execs don't have real power there. Plus all work and decisions are also controlled by Microsoft, so if they're doing extremely well then Avanade does and then Accenture fights for their share of the money in some shady way.

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