Sounds great on paper, but fails on most engagements - Senior Consultant Avanade Employee Review

2.0
19 July 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of travel, good assuming you like it. Average pay and benefits. Great fringe benefits like airline miles. You are usually stuck in the trenches with likeminded coworkers, so you build team camaraderie and make friends quickly.

Cons

The mentoring/management system is convoluted - you get a random boss who doesn't know you, doesn't care about you, and doesn't spend any time with you. Semiannual reviews are like meetings of a secret society, and you have no chance of going anywhere if you don't know someone on the inside. Upper management is largely inaccessible. Avanade is attached to their partner Accenture at the hip, even though Accenture engagements are universally horrible and have high failure rates - but they refuse to cultivate independent engagements. Their other partner, Microsoft, is treated like a competitor - expect no help from them.

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5.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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

2.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

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.

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