Decent consultancy but too unmanaged and too much expected travel - Senior Software Developer Avanade Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Gain experience from multiple industries -Decent pay -Good benefits

Cons

-They put workers in "sink or swim" situations very often. You will very likely be on your own with the client most of the time. -While they provide subscriptions to training sites they offer very little themselves so it is very easy to be pretty clueless on your career path -Career growth as a developer is okay at the beginning but at a certain point tech skills are underprioritized in favor for management skills -Depending on which internal org you get into there is a lot of expected travel (weekly). This is fine to do for a year or two but most people get burned out on it after a long while.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company really cares for their employees, development, and culture Recognition for good work

Cons

Consulting in general is not what it used to be Accenture big brother is quite bureaucratic and obnoxious managing 'profiles' CEO is in London but HQ is Seattle

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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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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