Accenture is the cheapest company I have everrr worked for.

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I work at AC and have come from other consulting co and Industry. They aren’t cheap. They invest in their employees and from what i’ve seen they are generous. If you work in consulting you have no idea how good you have it.

I work on the tech side with an in-demand skill so that may be influencing my opinion.

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Agree, ACN never pays for any HH’s, or holiday parties, or bagel Friday’s, or free workout class passes on the weekends (Barry’s boot camp, soul cycle, flywheel, etc etc), or office events.

All of which ^^^^ Deloitte does.

How do I know? I was at ACN for 3 years.

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Deloitte clearly has favorites. Sometimes I have to walk around the office to find a chair for my desk.

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Having worked at more than half a dozen other companies, you must not have gotten around much. While everything is project dependent, things are much better here from that perspective than at many other places I've worked at

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Oh sweet summer child, please go out into the world and experience a few other companies. The grass is definitely not greener. A few examples from my years on the road:
-IBM GBS had us cramming five people into a mid-size rental SUV every week. Had to take the first 5AM flight every week so we could all arrive at the same time and share that rental. With luggage, it was not an easy fit
-Boutique consulting firm I worked for provided us plain sandwhiches from the grocery story every day for lunch and wouldn't let us claim lunch per diem because of that
-For another small consulting firm I worked for, was forced to stay at a hotel with horrible cleanliness standards and unbelievably crap rooms because we had a negotiated rate with them that required a certain number of people to stay every week. Escalated to leadership with no resolution. Literally got an antibiotics-resistant staph infection that I am 99% sure came from that hotel - caused me months of suffering, 9 rounds of different types of antibiotics, and eventually a surgery to cut out some of the infected tissue.

Trust me, we have it pretty great here.

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A31, I think you missed the part where I didn't stay - I'm at Accenture now, not any of the companies I outlined above

OP not sure which Geo you are from but strongly disagree. In the US, Accenture local offices have happy hours all the time. There are quarterly location events, monthly to quarterly practice events and finally your project events. We have taken my team on cruise boats twice, escape rooms, mystery murder dinner, virtual reality rooms, mini golf, heck once we hired a live band for a roof top go-live event with plus ones - all outings with booze and food. I am skipping the after parties and one off lunch, dinners that I take my team members on for 1:1, roll on, roll off. I am sure there is an one-off project that has crappy expense policy but in general it’s pretty fricking great.

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It depends on office as well... been around my office for 3 years... before that i was in a larger office that had some nicer and more frequent events. But in my office, in the 3 years we’ve had 1 holiday party, 1 escape the room, 1 happy hour, 1 movie premiere ... and 5 office wide meetings, thats about it... not every office is like the bigger offices... also in my 4 years around in different projects, I’ve had 4 team dinners and 1 baseball game once and thats about it... no practice events or anything else... so it really depends on project, manager, practice and everything... i definitely saw what you mentioned in my prior office but also understand OPs point of view

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After working at ACN for 5yrs I would also say that this isn't my experience. Lots of Happy Hours (at least monthly) with some other perks thrown in like Jiff points and external certificate sponsorships (SAFe, CSM, etc.).

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Coming from industry and I think ACN is very generous. I was with ACN Strategy for my first two years and got to go to a ton of happy hours, etc. it made me feel valued. I’m in ACN consulting and feeling a little less love, but now that I’ve been to a few happy hours I’d rather spend my free time with my own friends and family.

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The projects I was on were incredibly short. Like 1 week short at times. Having to constantly find new projects after incredibly short time periods was a huge challenge. That and the type of work I was doing started to slow down. The nature of my projects now in consulting are pretty varied...it’s not just one thing.

Per diems are cheap and awful- $40 a day while traveling is insane, who wants to eat fast food 3 meals a day; why are we getting separate checks at team dinners when leadership is around - so stupid and a waste of time; no points for booking flights; could go on and on

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I starve on the road 😭

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ACN is the least cheapest company I’ve worked for. I think it’s highly dependent on your practice, project, and level.

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I’ve worked here for under a year and have been to at least 15-20 happy hours just with my project team (that’s aside from ERG-sponsored happy hours). Rented out entire venues (bars, boats, karaoke) in NYC. It’s always a blast. My experience is that ACN is extremely generous.

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I really think of images of Oliver Twist when I hear EY’s expense policy...please sir I want some more

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I have recently left Accenture to work for a start up. And although I do think Accenture runs a tight ship, they aren’t that cheap. The have lots of internal events they pay for like ERG summits, Happy hours, and different overall events. And they spend lots of money on the client’s dime especially when you are working on a large project. My last project had a $186,000 budget for extra circular fun activities like once a week or once every 2 weeks. (Mind u it was a 100M dollar project)

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Strongly disagree. I have worked for another Fortune 500 company and have friends work in other well known companies. I can confidently say that Accenture takes best care of its employees.

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my worst and frustrating experience is..I am on automation project since day one for last 2 yrs..fully chargeable alone with my team of 20+ which I built ..working in automation technologies..
Irony is my training approver...sitting somewhere another city never approves any events or trainings that just costs less than 500$.. I am tired of following up withany emails reminding on chat and even no replies..

I am an delivery lead as well architect intl this project and need to have few advanced trainings that are within Accenture..

Not sure whom to escalate about my training approver..
Can I change my approver?

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Your approver is ignoring mails about approval for the events. Yes you can change your CC.

I’m not sure what trainings you’re talking about or how they’re impacting this conversation?

That wasn't my experience. At all. Go check out capgemini and then you'll learn an entirely different level of "cheap" if was mind blowing.

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Go work for camp Gemini and then let me know how you feel

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Switched from Accenture Consulting to Strategy and honestly makes a pretty substantial difference - I’m very thankful for what I get

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Yeah ACN Strategy is dope.

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really? I Was thinking of making the jump

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Wait until you work for industry, or even a non profit such as hospital/healthcare, and there is nothing that they give besides your base salary. Oh, and whatever you make in consulting now, slash that by 15-25% if you are making a lateral move, that’s the salary you will make. The only good thing you get is a more decent work life balance (sometimes depends) and not a whole lot of travel.

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Received an offer from Accenture pay is good. It’s with MC but career track is Innovation and Thought leadership. Never heard of it. Can anyone fill me in on this career track ? Good, bad or ugly

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Frankly, don’t know enough to answer the first few questions. As for the MD question, it’s titled differently. Top level is called “Principal Director” I believe - probably similar base but smaller bonuses as you aren’t tied to targets

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