r/accenture_india • u/Any_Necessary_3387 • 3h ago
| Discussion My honest experience working here the last 2 years
For anybody who is looking to join ACN or disheartened that they couldn't make it, let's just say you are not missing out on anything life changing. ACN does change your life, just not in the best way. I am a lateral hire and I had plenty experience working in my domain before hire. I was still unprepared for the amount of shit I was going to face everyday here.
- There's rampant mismanagement. It's almost like the middle managers have no idea how to manage a project or deliverables. The project is surviving on miracles, ego clashes and a few hardworking folks. Notice how I said 'few'.
- There is a culture of threat and intimidation. Your manager and leads will use emails like a weapon against you. Even before you know anything is wrong, bam there goes an escalation mail. Your feedback will not be communicated to you, it will be communicated to leadership and you will be a silent observer.
- The only company where you will be targeted and actively pulled down if you're doing good work! This was the most shocking to me. I have seen everywhere that if you are slightly more competent than others, you are given more work. My first time seeing higher-ups hating on you for being able to do what they cannot and then making your life hell for it.
- You cannot choose your projects. You will be staffed (more like, stuffed) into the next project that has a vacancy. No calls, no discussions, anything. If your PL is helpful, maybe they can pull some strings for you. If not, you're on your own. A PM can continue extending you in their project (because you do good work) while screwing your feedback (because they don't like you).