Vantaggi
*The Accenture machine is huge - find a niche and you can quickly have a big budget and team under you. String a few similar moves together and you'll start running major departments in the company with run-rates in the £100m+ bracket. It will be an amateurish and chaotic experience but will look good on your CV *You'll work with the biggest clients in the world (albeit on their less interesting problems) *Please just read the Cons
Svantaggi
*Ran a contentious restructure in 2019, then layoffs in 2020, then experienced extreme levels of unwanted attrition in 2021 and 2022, then ran layoffs again in 2023 and are now again experiencing unwanted attrition *As a result of the point above, the vast majority of staff are at <18 months tenure and there simply isn't enough continuity *Support functions have disappeared, meaning the grunt work is done by everyone inc. Managing Directors. This includes slide formatting, coordinating time in the office, calendar management, timesheet and expense submissions, solving technology issues. Technology and systems barely work as a result of layers of outsourcing and technical debt (I'm talking about employee laptops struggling to open PPTs, not running cloud services) *Almost no training and development investment at all levels since 2020 *As a result of the points above, no one is able to be effective at work: navigate internal systems, deliver projects, sell new work, etc. *The Analyst pipeline is completely broken: there is a severe backlog of promotions, new hires have had joining dates delayed by up to 12 months, training is basically non-existent and many Analysts have been benched for the majority of their time at the company *Hostile M&A that absorbs and atrophies 5-10 competitors a year (brand starts being merged, offices get combined, senior leaders leave, comp gets equalised with other teams, then everyone else leaves)