Accenture

Good working experience. I worked with some high-profile clients and was able to strengthen some of my existing technical skills and gain new ones. I have met some wonderful people at the company. You can really strike gold networking here.

I was hired as an "apprentice," but for all intents and purposes, I have been working as an analyst. There is no distinction between the work I do and what level 11s/10s do on my projects. The pay is really suboptimal for doing dev work in the Bay Area (65k/yr).

Also, this position is touted as being an "earn as you learn" position, but if you already have the skills needed on a project, you just get put there and do the work. You get to learn new skills and grow if there's a need for it on a project you're lined up on, which seems to be the case for higher-level folks as well. I'm sure some people reading this are like "duh," but it wasn't sold like that.

Long story short, I don't think I've gotten any additional support being an apprentice that I would've gotten as an analyst. I get a couple more meetings on my calendar a month, but that's it. And I certainly get paid less!

Keep a better finger on the pulse as far as if people's skills match their position and compensation. Try to do it before they are hired on.