My life in Accenture before startups
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My life in Accenture before startups
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Re: My life in Accenture before startups
#2Inspiring!
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#3I can vouch for this. I never worked for any of the big 4, but worked with them on many occasions, when I was a consultant with a much smaller firm (200 when I left).
Consulting really is a great way to learn the ins and outs of business while earning a good salary and getting to travel. Combine it with writing lots of code and its a fantastic real-world education for a multitude of endeavors.
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#4but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas.
Mmm, but you can't tho'. No-one can. What consultants do is fake expertise, then actually learn it on the time the client is paying for an expert. Not that that isn't a skill mind, but don't confuse it for something it's not.
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#5My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible.
A small anecdote (out of many):
I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend started to tell bullshit stories about his "heroic" job at Accenture. An untalented money whore if I ever saw one. If you know nothing and have the moral integrity of a human trafficker, it looks like you end up in consulting @ Accenture.
Buzzwords. Check. "Play the game or get lost" mantras. Check. "People making less than 100k are lazy bastards". Check. "All companies are rotting from within, our external consulting work is basically a gift of god". Check. Blah blah blah. He got a hard on from riling us up, the "naive idealists" we are.
Get real, son.
Re: My life in Accenture before startups
#6but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas. Mmm, but you can't tho'. No-one can. What consultants do is fake expertise, then actually learn it on the time the client is paying for an expert. Not that that isn't a skill mind, but don't confuse it for something it's not.
I never mentioned anything about expertise. What I said was:
I also gained a lot of confidence in my abilities to pick up and absorb new things and become productive quickly - something that I knew I could do with technologies, but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas.
I think you're letting a prejudiced opinion of consultants get in the way of the article.
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#7"The height of absurdity was reached, I believe, when I was asked to prepare the proposal for the preparation of a plan to produce a proof of concept for a module of a tool the client was implementing."
Wow, that sounds pretty inane.
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#8My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible. A small anecdote (out of many): I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend started to tell bullshit stories about his "heroic" job at Accenture. An untalented money whore if I ever saw one. If you know nothing and have the moral integrity of a human traffick…
Any company with 100k+ people is going to have its share of idiots. I worked there for 4 years and, in my experience, this type of person was definitely a very small minority.
I'd blame the person rather than the company for this kind of terribly flawed character.
Re: My life in Accenture before startups
#9My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible. A small anecdote (out of many): I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend started to tell bullshit stories about his "heroic" job at Accenture. An untalented money whore if I ever saw one. If you know nothing and have the moral integrity of a human traffick…
His peers probably think the same thing of him. It's rare to come across someone like that, but unfortunately they are sometimes around.
Re: My life in Accenture before startups
#10My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible. A small anecdote (out of many): I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend started to tell bullshit stories about his "heroic" job at Accenture. An untalented money whore if I ever saw one. If you know nothing and have the moral integrity of a human traffick…
Any company with 100k+ people is going to have its share of idiots. I worked there for 4 years and, in my experience, this type of person was definitely a very small minority. I'd blame the person rather than the company for this kind of terribly flawed character.
I'd blame the person and not the company myself if it were not for
a) Witnessing the havoc Accenture consulting unleashed upon a couple of businesses personally b) Knowing, albeit superficially, a load of people who currently work or had worked at Accenture. With the exception of one they're the poster jerks nobody likes.