Vantaggi
Everything was great until I had to take medical leave. I attribute that much more to having a good client than to Avanade, though. Others at Avanade didn't have the same experience and there was a lot of turnaround.
Svantaggi
I had to take 3 months of medical leave and was fired 1 month after returning for a made up reason. While I was off work my manager switched roles and was replaced by someone who had it out for me from the beginning just because I took medical leave. HR did absolutely nothing to protect me, they let him make up a reason to fire me. Also, even though the short term leave benefits provider approved my leave, they denied paying me for any of the time I was out of work. I supplied all of the necessary medical paperwork and it was approved for the leave, but not for payment. How is that even possible? I had multiple medical doctors sign off on the paper work. Absolutely horrible medical leave benefits if that isn't already obvious.