Accenture

Laterals get a good salary hike. Infrastructure is good. Free bus service. Well-furnished canteens, gym, and recreation area.

The interview to offer process is painfully slow. Sometimes there's lots of confusion as people call up asking to take the interview again and again.

The project allocation system is not transparent to candidates. Candidates are sometimes forcefully locked into projects. A portal called ijp exists, but I haven't seen anyone get a good project through ijp.

Some projects are pretty chaotic with long hours of work, as a result of imperfect requirement gathering and planning from management. There has been a change in the rating system, and the bell curve has been removed. However, the net result is the same for candidates. People make a lot of sacrifices working at Accenture.

Managers request input from candidates to be filled in a timely manner. However, the feedback and process are strangely lacking in transparency. There is a mid-year feedback and a final feedback. I have seen people with good feedback getting bad ratings with no explanation. Moreover, I have seen cases where feedback has been withheld until the point where managers discuss ratings among themselves, and then the supervisor fills in the feedback in line with what they have decided. This is not the case with every project, but in case the manager or supervisor is unscrupulous, there is no effective way to protest. Sadly, technically excellent candidates face this from managers who are themselves not technically capable and have some personal axe to grind.

1. Please stop people who are not capable from harassing others in the name of management. I have seen senior people working happily on many projects where there is no manager to micromanage.

2. How is a manager of use if the basic requirement gathering in a project goes off track? In such cases, the manager's only focus is the best way out to survive the situation.

3. Instead of managers, people need leaders who are technically capable and can guide them out of a crisis situation in a project. This is unlike a manager who depends on people to bring them out of a crisis situation and resorts to threats to achieve the same.

4. India and the world of technology are changing. It is up to the leadership of Accenture to imbibe this change, not only in technology but in the corporate culture as well.