I’ve got two roles- one at Capgemini for senior consultant and one as consultant within Accenture… so many pros and cons. Which would you choose?

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I’d do Accenture. Better brand and not WITCH

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W - Wipro
I - Infosys
T - TCS
C - CapGemini or Cognizant (not sure which one)
H - HCL

Whichever pays more

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Do both for a month then decide. Overemployment baby!

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What country and practice? Like in most big companies, the type of work, leadership and culture varies dramatically across the organisations - you will get a lot of anecdotal opinions here unless you can be more specific.

It also depends on your motivations - what skills do you want to develop, do you want a career in consulting or see this as a stepping stone, etc?

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Country really matters. Cap Invent has a comparable reputation to Accenture in the UK and are doing much better than Accenture.

I can't speak for the US or elsewhere

Do they pay the same? Which service line / practice at Accenture?


Overall, Accenture is a decent spot to work. You’ll find morale generally low because salaries / promos have generally been frozen, but even still it’s a solid company / brand that will either give you a relatively secure job or set you up for exits later.

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Accenture by far. Capgemini is a dumpster fire of a firm.

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Capgemini is known to be a tech first, commodity valued systems integrator. Basically if you already have the process designed, you go to one of the cheap firms to actually do the work. Any WITCH (Wipro, Infosys, Tata, Cognizant, HCL) company is the same...lowest price for a transactional project. No strategy, no advisory, just a race to the bottom of a rate card.

You said you were in Strategy, so I assume you're looking at Capgemini Invent. There are very few companies who are willing, given the reputation of Capgemini as a cheap implementor, to take the risk on having Capgemini do strategy work. That goes to the Big 4, MBB etc. Even Accenture struggles in that market, and they are considerably better branded than Capgemini.

The problem with being a commodity based implementation company is that the only variable to compete on is price. This means that projects are often underestimated in order to get the price down below your competitors. That usually translates to the delivery team taking the brunt of the fallout. You'll be forced to ghost hours in order to keep the price low and will be working long hours with little to no upside. Basically it doesn't matter if you're on the strategy or the tech side of things at these companies, both sides lose.

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Purely external viewpoint, as I’ve I ly worked at T2 and MBB, but Accenture has a way better brand. I expect them to weather whatever this AI mess is better than Cap Gemini, so a better option if you think consulting is the long term goal. And if you’re looking for eventual exits, then it’s Accenture beyond a doubt.

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Which team at Cap?

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Ask ChatGPT to do a comparison based on variables.

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How did you get both what’s your experience?

4 yrs consultant no promotion lol - Currently specialized strategy

In what world does Cap compare to Accenture?

They’re not even close in terms of size, pay, culture, flexibility, and tech.

I've worked at both. Accenture is better money but, at least from my experience, the people are a lot nicer to work with at cap. Less about competition and more about collaboration. But their PTO and holidays suck!

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ACN.

The leadership at CG is very high on transactional side. If you are on bench for a handful of weeks, you are out. Poor brand too. 9 out of 10 chances, you will be in worse position than before you joined.

Culture is poor. Bullying is common from Americas CEO all the way to VPs. Zero vision and zero inspiration from them.

They are part of WITCH. You could argue WITH are better than CG.

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