Pros
Talented people from an acquisition. Great social experience for people based in an office. Passionate people and interesting projects. Graduate scheme has brought lots of talented people into the company Good support for certifications
Cons
Accenture are terrible and they suck the enjoyment, quality and skill out of delivery. If you’re unfortunate enough to be placed on their projects it’s a disaster and mix of political games to survive. Accenture’s optimal strategy is to extract maximum value from their clients and deliver minimal in return. To that end Avanade is just a means to achieve this. Competence means nothing if you’re given teams of people with 0 experience in the technologies your delivering in and culture of being transparent about that with your client is none existent. To much middle management Promotion is a politics game and not value or talent driven. Will regularly charge you out at higher grades (sometimes 2x) in order to make profit but are reluctant to promote to those grades despite many years of good performance at those grades. E.g selling people at group manager despite being two grades below. Innovation in projects is lacking. Project delivery leads are vastly different in their frameworks.