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Have worked at both. Accenture is a huge step up in my opinion
Left IBM GBS in 2014 for Accenture and never looked back. Better culture, better pay, better prestige, and less fear of being laid off. The city requirement is a firm policy, but there are those who circumvent it and no one knows the wiser.
Accenture really cares that much what city you're based out of? Why? Doesn't you're current city have a major airport?
Step up in Firm. Step down In quality of life for the move. None of this matters: what do you want longer term?
M2, talking about the consulting branch here for IBM. Hard to have good quality of life when you're in constant fear of getting laid off and even the best and brightest are getting fired around you - things at IBM GBS are pretty dire
IBM 1 you are kidding right? I have had many many friends who received high high ratings, raise, bonus and promotion within a few months of being involved in RA.
KPMG yes my city has an airport but the role is based out of another city. @ McKinsey I’ve struggled at IBM there have been layoffs at most parts of the business and I wonder what it’s like at another firm that isn’t going through such a large reorganization
MC1, huge step up in quality of life as well. Others I know who have made the move would agree
Step up in firm
Let's keep generalizing quality of life for companies with 400k+ employees
I walk talking quality of life shift from lower COL to higher COL city on comparable pay. Not commenting on life at Firm A or B.
If you’re a high performer you aren’t worried about losing your job. To me leaving for ACN is basically doing the same type of work and the increase in pay is offset by your expected increase in costs.
IBM1 I don’t think that’s true I’ve seen high performers get cut. To me it seems what manager you are aligned with and if they have a good relationship with New York.
High performers absolutely are getting cut at IBM, whether because of office politics or because they were unlucky enough to work in an area that IBM has not done well in lately (which is most areas in consulting).
There's plenty of overlap between IBM and Accenture but there's also plenty of work at Accenture that there's no way IBM would ever win.
IBM also tends to win a lot more low-value work compared to Accenture (even if the type of work is the same). The last project we won against Accenture (before I left at IBM), ACN's proposal was double what we pitched - that's how much we underbid them by. And then the client ended up paying for it because of what a clusterfuck the project ended up, and we ended up paying for it because the client's focus was all about saving every single penny they could rather than creating any real value
I would take the move.
I am with ibm2, everyone, other than the Executive level who seem to be able to move around freely without concern, seems to be a potential RA every week.