Fired for taking medical leave - Infrastructure Consultant Avanade Employee Review

1.0
Jun 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Everything was great until I had to take medical leave. I attribute that much more to having a good client than to Avanade, though. Others at Avanade didn't have the same experience and there was a lot of turnaround.

Cons

I had to take 3 months of medical leave and was fired 1 month after returning for a made up reason. While I was off work my manager switched roles and was replaced by someone who had it out for me from the beginning just because I took medical leave. HR did absolutely nothing to protect me, they let him make up a reason to fire me. Also, even though the short term leave benefits provider approved my leave, they denied paying me for any of the time I was out of work. I supplied all of the necessary medical paperwork and it was approved for the leave, but not for payment. How is that even possible? I had multiple medical doctors sign off on the paper work. Absolutely horrible medical leave benefits if that isn't already obvious.

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5.0
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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
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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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