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The worst place one can get into

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Accenture for less than 1 year
February 13, 2011
Bengaluru, Karnataka
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Decent Transportation Facilities

Variable Pay is always paid 100%

Some very good colleagues

Average work and personal life balance, decent.

Cons

Politics reigns supreme. You have to be a bootlicker to progress in the organization. Impossible to grow or get into a good project without a godfather. Loads of linguistic and regional bias.

Pathetic Work Culture. Too many false promises made to employees. Everybody in a project would be assured of onsite opportunities just to ensure people won't quit, but eventually, only people closer to managers get the chance to travel. Cheap tactics to hold on to people. Good hikes, on-sites, and good projects are promised during appraisal times only to be ditched later. Useless processes and tools internally. Arrogant and rude HR.

Employee referral scheme never works. HR and external recruitment agencies are hand in glove, and hardly any of the employee referrals are selected.

Worst place to join and work if you are a talented and honest resource. Appraisals and promotions are only given to people who are close to managers. Never expect more than a 2-3% hike and no promotions for a minimum of 5 years if you are not in the good books of managers. Archaic maintenance projects. No cutting-edge work.

Advice to Management

It is of no use to write any piece of advice to them, since the advice would be in dustbins, and the senior management does not care about the resources. Talking to subordinates is a waste of time for them, as they consider people at lower levels as slaves.

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