Accenture

As an Accenture employee, I work for a big customer of Accenture on a long-term contract. Not much travel is required, which is good for me (I have two kids under 6).

You get some training opportunities and learn different technologies, especially as the project gets more complicated.

The workload is not terrible; I did not work many overnights in my past year.

People are very nice and pretty tolerant of each other's different cultures.

Accenture is a good name to put on a resume. If you want some security, stay here. If you are young and competent, move ahead.

Many managers have no idea about the technologies. Some horrible architecture and design are passed into implementation without enough technical review, usually because the managers lack technical skills.

Outsourcing makes things even worse. Poor and inexperienced developers get hired in India, causing more work here, e.g., cleaning the code and more debugging.

What managers care about is budget and deadlines. Not enough work has been done to coordinate the teams.

All these add up. You can imagine the mess.

It won't take too long to make your morale low. I think that's why I see many people leaving.

Be realistic about outsourcing. We are not saving money by doing this. We produce low-quality deliverables and are ruining Accenture's good reputation.