My life in Accenture before startups • Hacker News Board

Re: My life in Accenture before startups

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Post by goombastic » Sat, Jun 11, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

jbrechtel wrote: post #106

fbnt wrote: post #36

I left Accenture (Italy) this january, after 3 years, and just like you I was hired right after graduation thanks to my 'mad' java skills, after about 1 year I wasn't writing much code anymore and SQL, Word & Excel became my only daily companions. Negatives/things I didn't like during my experience in Accenture : - Working 10-14 hours a day (^). If you were to leave at 6pm your supervisor would joke about it ("hey, d…

Just for anyone wondering, not all consultancies operate this way. I've been at ThoughtWorks for 2 years now and it's nothing like this. It's quite literally the opposite on every negative point mentioned above.

LOL. your boss knows your HN id?

Re: My life in Accenture before startups

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Post by Duff » Sat, Jun 11, 2011, 7:38 PM UTC

brendino wrote: post #92

Duff wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it just me, or do all of the ex- or current Accenture people posting here sound like Amway salesmen or cult members.

It's funny you say that - there's a lot of Kool-Aid drinking that goes on at Accenture (or any other corporate consulting brand for that matter). Re-reading my post, it does look a bit sales-ish. Regardless, from my experience, there are quite a few people in the company with cult-like loyalty. The majority, however, (myself included) maintain a pretty healthy dose of skepticism and pragmatism.

I'm glad to hear that. Most of the Accenture people I've engaged with on a personal level share that skepticism and pragmatism.

Re: My life in Accenture before startups

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Post by bengl3rt » Wed, Jun 15, 2011, 11:47 PM UTC

jbrechtel wrote: post #110

bengl3rt wrote: post #72

I've looked into consulting as a potential career, not with a behemoth like Accenture, but with smaller more specialized boutique shops (Art & Logic) or mid-size ones (Thoughtworks). All I really want is a wide array of domain experience in different verticals, and travel to lots of different places. However, everyone I've interacted with has painted the services business as a cruel and hierarchical (and underpaid) p…

I'd be surprised if you heard about ThoughtWorks' professional services as cruel, hierarchical and underpaid. I imagine we're more the source of the 'so disorganized they never even get back to you' part, right? If so, I apologize for that. If you really did just get dropped by recruiting then shoot me an email and I can rouse the right people.

Emailed you. Thanks :)