Accenture

Brand name. Good development projects. Great learning opportunity for a technical person in terms of using latest tools and processes to deliver a quality project. Big clients to work for. Free buses.

Worst work-life balance. Working late and on weekends is normal.

Salary is a joke, as around 18% is variable, and an average employee doesn't even get 50% of it.

If you are getting an HSB (Hot Skill Bonus), that can be discontinued any appraisal year, which in turn will reduce your overall salary.

Beware: PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) are common in Accenture. If you are put on one, you will be terminated, regardless of how hard you try to clear it. All politics.

Accenture is a web of policies, and incompetent managers know how to misuse them.

Managers just care for their budgets and keep licking their clients' boots so much that they can screw up an employee's career.

Management is aware of all the issues and is responsible for them.

Don't fool your employees. They eventually understand you, and that's why you have such a high attrition rate.