Accenture

It's a policy-driven company. This doesn't mean managers have less power, but you can reach out to HR for any grievances (unless it's a complaint against a manager, because in that case, HR by default discloses all your emails and everything to managers. This has happened to many of us, so it's not an isolated scenario).

The Bangalore office, especially Bang-6 and Bang-7, has a pretty good subsidized cafeteria, a nice gym, and recreational activities.

The projects are mainly for the European region, so shifts are at bearable times and compensate handsomely for any other than usual shifts.

Accenture started out great in the initial days. Everyone praised it because most of the people were well-selected and managers were rightly assigned.

But then, in recession and in order to compete with Indian MNCs, it started taking Indian managers from low-grade Indian companies, who not only degraded the culture but ruined the best thing (policy-driven) about Accenture.

CON LIST:

• Favoritism: The inflow of regional favoritism really shows since 2013 onwards, when the majority of people sent onsite were from the "Region" where managers belong.
• Talented experienced people were replaced with budget-friendly freshers.
• The raise system has a serious bell curve.
• Development projects were replaced with support projects because they can earn more from supporting a project than developing it.
• Hot skill bonuses ended on many skills.
• Variable pay is 25-50% of the promised amount; it's daylight robbery.

I would advise high-level management to trim these fatty, regional, biased mid-level managers. I am the example that 'You don't leave your company, you leave your managers.'