Accenture

Nice people. You can work independently without being micromanaged. Still lots of WFH opportunities.

There is a general malaise in the tech industry right now. No one feels safe. There's a feeling that the macro economy explanation is not the whole picture, that rather there is an anti-labor sentiment afoot, with big companies laying off folks to look good on paper and drive down wages. It's sad, particularly when compared to just a couple of years ago. Work-life balance can suffer if a project is understaffed with hard-skilled talent. Client projects are led by MBA and sales-focused people; it's not an engineer-led technology culture. Technology deliverables suffer as a result of understaffing while keeping tech projects bloated with non-tech staff. I predict this will impact Accenture's future as a tech consulting firm.

When client budgets need to downsize, don't cut the people with hard skills, even if you believe your bread is buttered by being a "people-first" company. It is simply unsustainable to do so. Technology deliverables can only be landed by hard skills and tech talent, and cannot be saved by "spin" alone.