Accenture

Great variety of projects and technologies, which greatly helps expanding your knowledge and get to work with many techs.

Nice perks, such as good health insurance, gym subsidy in a great variety of gyms, and Doctor@Hand.

Access to discounted Accenture shares.

Flexible parental leave.

Great opportunity to get certified in anything. They offer a range of services and tools to enable that.

If you're a recent graduate, don't mind climbing the corporate ladder, and love to work anytime of the day and evening, you'll feel at home.

1. Full of office politics;
2. You find yourself living to work rather than working to live;
3. When it comes to performance review time, it gets quite stressful because it's a sales speech, and most of the times, the one who has actually worked and contributed more doesn't get promoted. At the end of the day, it's 'how well the managers or senior managers in your bubble know you';
4. Managers feel like gods and can get very disrespectful and inconsiderate. On many occasions, they've put people on performance improvement simply for not wanting to work overtime or wanting to leave a project they're not happy with;
5. Arrogant leadership;
6. Mediocre pay;
7. Coming from a minority background, on three occasions I've had white managers and team leads happily saying the 'N word' in front of me while others just laughed, which goes without saying the feeling of disrespect felt. (Being new and junior in the company, I was afraid to speak out.) On a different situation, a team lead said to me 'don't go for white girls, they don't tend to like big-nosed people' while asking for my dating situation;
8. People at a senior level feel the need to step/look down on people;
9. You'll find yourself knowing more than someone at a higher level than you, which goes back to point number 3;
10. Unnecessary extra-curricular work which is crucial to getting promoted. The more you do, the better, and you easily find yourself not having time for actual client work;
11. Leadership don't care about juniors of Level 11-12. I have once been around a group of managers in a pub; a group of junior colleagues (level 11-12) passed by to say 'Hi'. After they're gone, a manager loudly says 'F-word TAGs' (TAG is the denomination for anyone who's of associate/analyst level). All other managers, team leads, and senior managers simply laughed;
12. No humanity. If you're lucky enough, you find yourself in great projects with actual nice people, but it's extremely rare. It's easier to find a crypto-wallet full of Bitcoin on the side of the road.
13. I have worked on a financial services' project with a very lovely and friendly group of Indian developers on ICT visas; the senior managers were the true definition of bullies. On one occasion, they called one of the developers (who's around 38-40 years old) dumb and useless in front of the team. Which goes back to points 5 and 8.
14. Leadership are like presidential candidates; they know how to use their words to keep you at ease.
15. Get ready to be a Yes-Man in order to be promoted.

Final Tip:

• It's not about working hard; just know your people, make yourself known to managers and senior managers;
• Talk a lot, even if it doesn't make sense;
• Make sure you show the personality that's ready to step on or disrespect others anytime; it'll show to leadership you're ready to lead.

Worth having a look at the Cons (and maybe some Pros) to get an idea where it's going wrong.