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Good place to start off a career, but a bad place if you want work-life balance

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Accenture for less than 1 year
April 21, 2010
Singapore, Singapore
4.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Dedicated and friendly young people.
  • Managers are encouraging and willing to teach.
  • Great exposure to different roles and industries for projects.
  • Great corporate culture.
Cons
  • Crazy working hours.
  • Promotions are sometimes dependent on the months at a level, which affects the actual promotion for people who really put in effort.
  • For the amount of hours you put in, around 60 hours per week, the amount of pay you are getting is nuts.
Advice to Management

Please place more focus on the people from Accenture Technology Solutions. Consulting folks doesn't mean EVERYTHING.

At the end of the day, ATS people can run the show better than the consulting guys. Make the pay for the ATS people more competitive so that they can be on par with the consulting folks. Recognize their effort, as they are the actual people who are doing the dirty jobs (even making things happen without consulting folks).

Allow more promotions to manager level for ATS. The population is so huge, and yet most managers are coming from consulting. Why is this so? Is it because only consulting people can lead while ATS people can't?

Please give ATS more attention.

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