Would you rather take a Consultant role with Accenture or a Manager at a startup? Pay’s the same, but the startup has better bonuses and benefits and preparing to go public. I’m struggling to decide…

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Startup - especially if you can trade some cash comp for equity (assuming they are looking to ipo in the next 2-4 years)

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Thank you for the feedback. Equity is included as well in the offer with incremental increases every quarter.

Startup! You can always go back to consulting.

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I'm poor so startup

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First of all, I think this decision depends in a lot of personal things, like work style, risk, etc.

That being said, I personally would go for the startup if:
- The company is poisoned to grow fast in a couple of year
- I like the what the startup do (or at least like part of it)
- If there's some equity in the table (optional, but a huge bonus point)

I'm biased against Accenture, I think it's a really bad company to work on, but that's me and you shouldn't take my view for granted.

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Sorry, busy day.

Mostly because of several friends who worked there in US and Brazil (I don't think I know anyone from London). Underpay is a thing, but most of their complaints were about the leadership.

I also had two clients directly telling me they hated accenture, one C-level, but that was the clients POV, not anyone in the team (although my opinion is that there exist a correlation btw bad leadership and client insatisfaction.

I think this is it. It might be anecdotal cases, but since all but two were very emphatic on this, I tend to think otherwise

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