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Asking for a friend?
I’m not going to sugar coat it. It is not common. At all. But it happens and it’s not the end of that persons career.
Happened at S& the last 2 years (for MBA hires)
Happened to me. I was offered a job with a small consulting firm that I interned with out of college. Fast forward 8-9 months, sequestration hit and my entire contract was cut. Since they were a small company and didn’t have the overhead to bench me, I was laid off. I was worried for a little while, but hustled jumping from small to medium level companies until I was able to land myself with a large name in the industry that eventually led me here. I’m currently a SC in S&O making $120k at 28 without a MBA. Not too shabby in my opinion given my rough start.
About 1 out of 10 people leave in the first year is my guess. The majority of them are probably voluntarily leaving. The rest are fired.
You have to screw up pretty bad to get fired the first year - a company that’s doing that a lot is going to have a hard time recruiting new students. So they avoid it
Happens all the time to good people at Accenture.
We have a history of doing that - it’s not unheard of but very uncommon
It's okay folks, OP is lying, he said that he's happy here.
Btw, this didn't happen to me haha-- I am happily working at PwC, was just curious of how common this may be
My friend got laid off within 2 weeks of joining out of undergrad (not consulting)
If you are not staffed and junior at Accenture there is usually nobody to advocate for you and it’s all a numbers game there.
Very common. Ask Uncle D.
Why is that P1?
It happened at PwC last year. A bunch of new hires from August 2015 were laid off early 2016
@AccenturePartner: Hold on, all the time at ACN? Been here a decade: not true. Ugottatrulysuk4thatandthatisrare. Also: as a public company, no such thing as partners