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ACN is an SI firm for sure. They want to be Big-D so bad. Stay for the 401k vesting and bounce to another firm quickly to keep from being labeled an SI only person. You have plenty of time to learn the soft skills on the 2 yaears and change things up. Best of luck!
OP, so you're telling me your sample size is 2 roles? 🤣
EY 1 No one is talking about Change Management. Chill out.
Strategy wing of accenture does Real strategy work
Learn the soft skills and move on! Also even SI firms give you exposure to many aspects of the business that will be valuable in your future. Only mbb does pure strategy
@E1 & @A1, thank you for the great advice! Love the people at ACN so far but not the type of work. Thanks for keeping it all in perspective
Yup entry level we pay higher.
You’ll never get away from systems, even at the B4. You might not do SI work, but technology is everywhere and has huge sales add-on. Learn the language and network your way to other projects
I’ll put it this way, not doing PMO, requirement gathering, testing, and user story creation.
Instead conducting analysis, interviews, developing a POV, business benefit, etc
I'm MC and no SI work for me since I've been here. Do you have a specific skill set?
@ACN1: "Change Management" at ACN does not count. 😂
@A1 - not really, came in to the firm through campus recruiting... took a PMO role to start on a SI project
@A2 - yeah I tried networking with SMs in strategy but they said it’s near impossible to switch into.
@TSC1 - fair point, but I noticed that most the projects that I know of / heard of all revolve around a SI project as the core so I wanted to see how big 4 are different
I’m grateful for the high salary straight out of college but thinking of my career path long term, I want to be aligned to more MC, and it just seems tougher/limited at ACN. Wanted to see if I’m not looking hard enough or if the general consensus was the same
OP, expect that in your first couple of roles at both Big Four and ACN you'll get stuck in roles that most people probably would not have had as their first picks (including work that's SI-focused). This is because you have no proven skills and no network.
As time goes on you should have a better pick of projects and will generally be better able to focus on areas of interest
Your assertion that 90% of the work ACN does is SI-focused isn't true in the aggregate, and certainly isn't true if we then focus on our consulting practice (what we call Client & Market) and then more specifically MC
Also, not sure about the advice to "bounce to another firm quickly". Network and bounce to another project. Our MC analyst pay is better than D and EY, from what I've heard. You are working for money, correct? 😉
@OP I see where you're coming from. If you prove your work ethic by doing those roles you're not so interested in, you'll get support from your M/SM/MD to do whatever the heck you say or think you're good at. You just need a few folks in your corner to vouch for you and it will all play out in time. With that in mind, have an idea of what your specific area of interest is and make it known.
@A1 - thanks A1!!
Welcome to the club my friend. In the exact same boat. I get SA this June (hopefully) and then it’ll be jump time
What do you define as MC work? Making decks no one reads and calling it strategy?
I’m aligned to TC and none of my past 3 projects had anything to do with SI.
It does help when you start having more knowledge in a specific industry. And even in my current role where I’m working on business processes, my background in SI helps me better understand a lot of things.