Accenture

Accenture encourages you to be efficient and to excel. You get your hands on new technology, and because it is an outsourcing company, you gain experience with a multitude of client environments. The company promotes process improvement and encourages employees to get involved in training, volunteer work, and team-building initiatives. The company attracts some really great people.

The company is on an aggressive mission to move as much work to India and other low-cost countries as possible.

They are top-heavy in management and short on leaders with direction.

There is an abundance of managers, and the shrinking technical resources are forced to work to no end. True leaders are becoming hard to find here.

Most employees must work while on PTO or risk falling behind and failing.

Recruit leaders, and reduce the number of managers.

Promote from within, and hold management accountable for retaining technical talent.

The turnover at this company is frightening.

Investigate the cost of losing strong technical resources who have been trained in the Accenture methodology.

Look for ways to stay profitable in the long run, and hire technical leaders from within.

Too many managers come in with no proven track record, only to fail after taking projects and resources down with them.