Accenture

Livable salary, ability to pay my bills, support my small and growing family.

Shower you with presents, free Uber Eats vouchers, free Accenture gear.

Lots of fun events, meet-up opportunities. Did I mention free food and gifts?

The apprenticeship program is great, but hard work as expected. It is worth the experience. A very good "foot in the door" place to start your career in the tech field.

Did not adjust salary during inflation.

I wanted to change my People Lead many times, but no one helped me, not even my HR partner.

Feedback is one-way; there's no way to give feedback to higher-ups who don't do well. This leads to power plays and blackmail.

They shower you with a lot of gifts to keep you loyal and hope you don't ask too many questions, but they don't pay you much at all.

If you want to know your actual salary, then add about $30k or way more to your Accenture salary to calculate your worth.

Project-based work is stressful; you never know who you're going to work with. Some people are amazing, and some people are purely the worst. It's a rollercoaster ride for sure.

There seemed to be like an air of preppy college faux positivity and political correctness as a cover-up for things that can be potentially harmful. If you can see right through it, then good for you.

Take advantage of the resources and then move on to better opportunities. Accenture is not known for paying well. The apprenticeship and entry-level arena is like playing Survivor; good luck.

I passed the Apprenticeship and I'm being paid $60k, while there is no increase for inflation. This is a good "foot in the door" job. But I have to tell you all that, YOU ARE WORTH IT! And Accenture will keep you complacent with a $40 UberEats voucher, "promote" you with a small pay raise that's still way under market value, and a free branded sweatshirt and water bottle every few months. If you're happy with an entry-level $60k salary in the tech field, then you should take it just to pay the bills, level up like crazy, apply to other companies, and negotiate six-figure salaries.

Oh yeah, another con: you need to find your own project. If you are not on a project, you are considered "benched," so basically, you are applying for jobs while you have a job. After a year, it becomes ridiculous, so take your one year's experience, love yourself, and go where they value you more.

Not really sure. Management is a mix of different types of levels, personalities, and learning styles. Some are great, some you just won't gel with, but that's okay and expected.

But it seems so strange to me that there are completely incompetent people as Senior Managers, who don't even have an ounce of leadership capabilities.