Total mess, global “demotion”, do not join - Group Manager Avanade Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

None. It is all chaos under the “new” boss.

Cons

Chaos everywhere. The new CEO (Rodrigo), fired all the support functions (yes, all HR, Finance, Marketing) got fired and just a few moved to Accenture to “manage” Avanade employees * policy communication is disorderly. People found out that “new alignment” means “Accenture all but in name only”. Much more restrictive policy on incidental work or ability to just check emails from another country * THE BIGGEST ONE : Today, The CEO (Rodrigo) has announced that all the Group Managers (which were the level right before reaching Director+ area), are to be effectively eliminated and renamed to just “Manager” (Manager was the level below) . So he basically demoted all the Group Managers, and destroyed our careers, as we will all be just “Managers” not reflecting our experience The demotions actually impact also Directors (who now will be called “Senior Managers”) and Senior Directors with now just be “Directors”

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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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
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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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