Great tools for training
Good, progressive atmosphere
Cons
Little say over which projects you get staffed to
You must be the one looking out for your career. "Career Advisers" are more concerned with you being chargeable in something irrelevant to your department than actually advancing your career.
Avanade Response
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I’m sorry to hear that your career adviser experience was not what you had hoped. We launched our Career Adviser training curriculum last year in an effort to teach our leaders how to provide meaningful feedback to improve your performance and how to engage you in a dialogue about your career growth and development. If you’re willing to share more information about your experience, please email me at jeyan.jeevaratnam@avanade.com
Company really cares for their employees, development, and culture
Recognition for good work
Cons
Consulting in general is not what it used to be
Accenture big brother is quite bureaucratic and obnoxious managing 'profiles'
CEO is in London but HQ is Seattle
The projects are really large so you'll get great experience. The benefits are good. The people are, for the most part, really nice at the lower level.
Cons
Always restructuring. You don't actually work for Avanade you work for Accenture under the name of Avanade. Accenture is always trying to absorb or downsize Avanade and even the execs don't have real power there. Plus all work and decisions are also controlled by Microsoft, so if they're doing extremely well then Avanade does and then Accenture fights for their share of the money in some shady way.