Accenture

Compensation at the exec level (7 and up) is competitive. The company is generous with training certifications, and during the pandemic, they gave a significant amount of allowance for their employees' work-from-home setup. There are many events to bring people together.

1. HMO issues - HMO for dependents has a contestability period. It's 2 years for parents and 1 year for kids. The contestability period is when you cannot use the 100% coverage until you have satisfied it. Also, the HMO contribution for dependents is not 100% shouldered by the company; it's subsidized only. Other companies in the Philippines (as big as them) cover 100% of the contribution without a contestability period.

2. Unskilled People Managers/Leads - In big organizations like this, you often encounter good and poor people management skills. But I have reason to believe there are many more poorly-skilled ones than good ones here. The people managers/leads don't really undertake behavior qualifications nor pass certain workshops on how to be a people manager. They are promoted based on task achievements or when the business has grown, but they lack experience & knowledge in proper people handling. There are just too many errors; some you can use as grounds for a labor complaint in DOLE.

3. Accenture is a PEZA company, so they are required to use PEZA locations. If not, they will pay. So, they require their employees to sit in the office 1x-2x per week.

4. Not as multi-cultural as I expected - There is only Filipino and Indian culture. So imagine that combination, e.g., blind appeal to authority, men underestimating women, culture of saving face, etc. There are many politics-savvy individuals in this company, and the leaders thrive here, haha!

5. Careful in recruitment! - Recruitment, they lowball every candidate. They would even offer you a lower salary than your current. They did that to my referral. The remedy here is to tell the hiring manager during their interview how much you want. Also, it's a 10-hour workday here, and the dependent HMO contestability period are items they will not tell you until you sign the contract.

I am not one for telling management what to do.

However, I have a suggestion: have certain behavioral qualifications in choosing people leaders because whenever we think of resigning, it's always because of them. I mean, you can promote them, but have a second thought in allowing them to handle other employees' futures at Accenture. I'm sure not many of them have natural talent for managing people.