Accenture

Pay is good.

Option for buying company stock at a discount.

You're not immediately laid off if your project ends.

Orientation felt a lot like what I imagine a cult indoctrination would be like. They paraded in different people singing the praise of Dear Leader Accenture and repeating how it's the best place ever for anyone and everyone.

Instead of giving people well-deserved time off with 10 holidays, they only give 9. In place of the 10th, you either have to do their day of service or take PTO. If you don't want to give them rights to your likeness for future advertising or whatever they want to use it for, or if you just want a 10th holiday, you have to skip the day of service and use PTO instead.

Their annual review process was ridiculous when I left in 2017. It was changed to be more peer review, but if you're not on a project with any other Accenture people, it can be tough. Especially when you're bounced around to different projects without having enough time to learn the project well enough to really contribute.

They try to force you into mentoring people as "Career Counselors," regardless of whether it makes sense for you to be one or not. I barely had any sort of relationship with my "Career Counselor" and could email him without even getting a response, so I had no idea what was even really expected of it.

I'm sure there are other things that I'm not remembering at the moment, but this was an incredibly frustrating company for me.

Make the day of service a non-holiday and give people a 10th holiday.

Make the review process helpful and not something people feel isn't even worth participating in.

Make the career counselor process voluntary and maybe incentivize it with a bonus.

Orientation does NOT need to last for a full week. Three days, tops.