Pros
- Probably the best place to learn (and develop professionally) from different industries, projects and people - Good compensation, you have to be a good negotiator when you are hired, it's not a homogeneous thing - Excellent corporate values and vision, but very poor when it comes for accenturers to put in in practice, (I don't know if only for the teams I have worked for in these 1 1/2 years) - You will have very challenging and innovative projects, usually are major concerns in every kind of industry - Very good career and promotion schema, but politics and personal interests deviate it negatively - If you like to relate to people and focus on a politic and public relationship career, along with your professional career, this is the place for you
Cons
- Consultants feel and think (often erroneously)as knowing everything. It's a behavioral consulting thing, when you are consultant, you must be ready to answer any "consult". Bad from the strategic perspective, you should focus on what you know, and pass on what you think is best to be answered by "an expert" - Corporate values are poorly followed, thus what accenture predicates is lost in execution - You can be a very talented "consultant" but if you are not well connected (do politics right and know a sponsor) you will not promote or grow in your career path - People is often most interested in growing personally, "playing dirt" to have better qualifications than their peers, and sometimes this "dirt game", comes to "stain your reputation" - Of course, poor work/life balance. As you need to show that you give the plus, you have to stay late hours, even if you have a well planned project and you can leave early (it's also cultural) - Some of the advise of my counselor and coordinators have told me is. You are ready to promote, you only have to show off, to demonstrate to Directive Managers that you are ready. What? showing off, c'mon, you have to sell yourself, so, you are ready but DM have to like you before they promote you, it is not based (as the promotion process say on your achievements and personal development)