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Exploitation, No Work-Life Balance

Test Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Accenture for 6 years
April 19, 2023
Lahug, Cebu
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The salary is not as high as people would expect. It's just mid.

There are smaller companies that offer higher salaries, but they have good benefits (leaves, medical insurance, life insurance, etc).

Cons

The employees work overtime almost every day to keep up with deliverables. A lot of the overtime was unpaid.

The management also likes to schedule meetings outside of working hours (unpaid).

The means of evaluation is via Bell Curve. Employees are not rated according to how they perform their tasks but how they perform as compared to their other peers. So, everyone is always under pressure to do better than everybody else in order to be promoted, until it reaches the point of unhealthy expectations and goals.

If you don't perform as well as the rest of your peers, you will be put on the PIP program, where you do not get any bonuses or increases for the whole year.

You cannot choose the project you will be rolled into, nor can you choose the position or field that you want to pursue. Employees can be rolled into a totally different role for their next project depending on the needs (e.g., a software developer can be rolled into a tester or application support specialist on the next project).

Not only are the roles different but the projects as well (e.g., you could be in a Java programming project then get rolled into a SAP support project next).

This results in no or poor mastery and no solid experience in a particular IT field.

Advice to Management

Be human.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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