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And apparently at one time Accenture had this philosophy too: At the time Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) didn't have any salespeople.

Every role reports to a more senior Accenture employee who assigns scores as a judgment on performance.

Speaking as someone who has worked with Accenture people on a government contract, Accenture is the most hellish employer I have had any kind of near-direct experience with.

Unfortunately, this is likely prophetic of the way people within Accenture will misunderstand this too.

I worked for Accenture for a bit and decided to quit when they would use technicalities to deny promotions.

Depends-- McKinsey and Accenture are considered strong consultancies known for their smart talent.

In this policy change, Accenture is simply removing a useless impotent non-position.

I was at Accenture -- we went from 60k employees to 28k.

Some consulting companies that love to hire CS majors here in Switzerland: - The big 3 (BCG, McKinsey, Bain) - Accenture (seems to be present in Europe only) -...

I won't work for IBM again because I've experienced their insanity, but I know people who were happy there; I wouldn't recommend Accenture to anyone, literally including Hitler.

I fear that a Republican administration would dismantle the startup style team and replace it with a more enterprise approach (bring in IBM or Accenture type companies) that would spend substantially more and accomplish substantially less.

However, buying a company with an identical product portfolio like Compaq, with the reason 'we wanted to get into consulting' was stupid, when for the same price HP could have purchased Accenture - even if Accenture hadn't grown, it still would have been a much better choice.

Then some crack team (Accenture or "young people") comes in, gets permission to make the necessary changes and gets all the credit.

I also worked at Accenture where the dress code was "smart casual" which meant "tidy, neat, conservative." I prefer hackers but Accenture paid better.

"You eat what you kill" was the phrase at Accenture.

But there's a weird corporate dance going on with "solutions" companies like IBM and Accenture, who subcontract through overseas outsourcing firms (sometimes derogatorily called "body shops"), who in turn use the H1B program to bring over some of their staff to the U.

When you say larger consultancy firms do you mean firms similar to the size of Accenture?

Having young directors that have spent multiple years in a company is much better than having a professional CEO caste all from the same HBS/Accenture track.

Accenture played this game quite well, made for some very unfun working environments for friends of mine.