As the title suggests - are you happy with Accenture at the moment. If not, why not, and would you consider leaving the company before September?

Not happy. Very dull work, long hours, poor pay and despite the management constantly being told this nothing changes.

lol @ poor pay, why don't you get a normal productive job in a service industry and then start whining about poor pay.

I too work for Accenture and share the gripes outlined aboveAt Anon - Service sector pay is totally irrelevant. I didnt persist with 20 years of education so that I can wait tables. Pay is very underwhelming at ACN - especially for supposed top performers such as myself. Factor in the boring nature of the work, and tedious performance review process and I often find myself wondering if the 'brand' is the only reason why I stay

What level are you, because at M1 and above there is nothing to gripe about really.

Why is there nothing to whine about? At M1 you are even more so the whipping boy of SEs, doing loads of internal work to keep up appearances and all for a laughable 8% bonus at the end of the year which doesn't even take pay close to 6 figures?The company has a lot of disgruntled employees who are fed up with partners selling low grade dull consultancy work, paying average wages and expecting people to work incredibly long hours in the process, oh and all the while having to a load of internal bullsh*t work on top.

blah blah blah, getting 70, 80 grand a year to manage a couple of analysts, make nice with clients, kiss some SM/SE ass and measure schedule variance on your project. boo hoo.

I'm a new C1 who went up in March after 30 months.Not thrilled with the hours or work, as highlighted above and can hope for, at best, consistent with in September. I guess this would be 5%? This would equate to a 12k increase in my three years, which is by no means spectacular.

Sounds to me that accenture pay is at least in line with, if not slightly above market rate. Whilst the work may be dull, the admin laborious and the politics tiresome - people should take some comfort knowing this.

I've left consulting, get more pay and I'm actually quite happy now rather than constantly exhausted by the the hamster wheel of consulting...don't rule out some other options

happynow - when you left consulting, what did you go to do instead?

I really don't get why people who are so fed up hang around. Leave. Go do something else. Take control of your life.Have you whingers ever thought about the possible impact on future work when you are being so critical of the company? If you think it is dull now, think how much worse it could get if any clients who visit this forum decide not to give work to your company because of what you have written.

I laugh everytime when people at Accenture moan about poor pay. You start on 31k + 10K joining fee, and how many other companies (banks aside) can you be on an 85k package (M1) after 5-7 years!?! Seriously, so many people at Accenture are arrogant, self-aggrandising individuals who don't actually have 1) any market appreciation 2) a realisation that the majority of people working the UK earn significantly less than them. If you're unhappy at the largest consulting firm in the world than can offer you unrivalled projects and training, and are annoyed that you earn 5-10k less than your mates then leave, just don't whine about it!

Did accenture used to be called andersen consulting? if so, why did they change their name?

Wikipedia:"The consulting wing of the firm became increasingly important during the 1970s and 1980s, growing at a much faster rate than the more established accounting, auditing, and tax practice. This disproportionate growth, and the consulting division partners' belief that they were not garnering their fair share of firm profits, created increasing friction between the two divisions.In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative. The two businesses spent most of the 1990s in a bitter dispute. Andersen Consulting saw a huge surge in profits during the decade. However, the consultants continued to resent transfer payments they were required to make to Arthur Andersen. In August 2000 the conclusion of the International Chamber of Commerce granted Andersen Consulting its independence from Arthur Andersen, but awarded the US$1.2 billion in past payments (held in escrow pending the ruling) to Arthur Andersen, and declared that Andersen Consulting could no longer use the Andersen name. As a result Andersen Consulting changed its name to Accenture on New Year's Day 2001 and Arthur Andersen meanwhile now having the right to the Andersen Consulting name rebranded itself as "Andersen".Perhaps most telling about who won the decision was that four hours after the arbitrator made his ruling, Arthur Andersen CEO Jim Wadia suddenly resigned. Industry analysts and business school professors alike viewed the event as a complete victory for Andersen Consulting. Revelations concerning Andersen’s overall performance in the audit of energy company Enron led to the break-up of the firm, and to the following assessment by the Powers Committee (appointed by Enron's board to look into the firm's accounting in October 2001): "The evidence available to us suggests that Andersen did not fulfill its professional responsibilities in connection with its audits of Enron’s financial statements, or its obligation to bring to the attention of Enron’s Board (or the Audit and Compliance Committee) concerns about Enron’s internal contracts over the related-party transactions".On June 15, 2002, Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron, resulting in the Enron scandal.

For those old enough to remember, the name change was a complete hoot for two reasons. First there was the sphincter-cringing explanation of how the name was chosen from an employee "suggestion box" (seem to remember photos of a young scandinavian with his prize for the winning name). It came complete with an in depth explanation of the chosen typeface and even the symbolism of the funny chevron thing (progress forward, etc)The second and bigger hoot was the PR disaster when all AC (Andersen Consulting) consultants were told to get rid of ALL of their old branded goodies (sweatshirts, ski jackets, etc) that they had been given over the years. A few days later a memo had to be sent out banning employees from depositing them with charity shops, as unfortunatley there were literally hundreds of homeless tramps now walking about in AC branded clothes in every major world city, making it look like AC consultants were the worst dressed employees ever.It was a short era of amazingly unsuccesful rebrands. accenture was nowhere near as sh!t a brand as "Monday", and no where near as financially usuccessful as "MarchFirst". They acquired 20 perfectly decent firms before rebranding them all into one brand just in time to go bust across the globe, putting 2000 consultants out of work in one sitting. Value creation - wow.

Ahhh MONDAY! I believe I have one of their travel mugs lying in storage somewhere after attending a training course on their premises... confusingly enough, on a Wednesday. Thanks for the memories.

Left ACN and joined an investment bank. More reasonable hours, less stress and definitely better pay. That's not to say ACN was a bad to be, but there might be better opportunities out there depending on your career ambitions.

Danish guy iirc but based in Norway. Didn't he win two weeks in Australia or something for getting the winning name?

ExACN i assume you're in some sort of back office job right? Is there opportunities to earn similar salaries to SE level or is it a case of more money now but less scope for progression beyond a certain point?

It's middle office (risk management). MDs here (kind of equivalent to ACN's SEs) are at least on par with SEs on base salary and they also get very handsome bonuses. Once you make it to partner (if ever), you'll probably need a personal accountant to count your money ;)

To Mr Cool, Completely wrong to imply that AC to Accenture was an unsuccessful rebrand. On the contrary I do believe it is considered one of the most successful re-brandings of recent years. Accenture continues to score at the top of annual brand value rankings (think Fortune publishes one), and climbed right to the top of those rankings soon after re-brand. Whether or not its a silly name is a completely different thing altogether, and probably more of a question of taste.

If I had worked for Accenture and had been asked my suggestion for a name and motto, I would have suggested:"Accenture... A Taste of The Future"

You aren't too far away. Accenture stands for "Accent on the future" and I too agree that it's been one of the most successful rebrandings in business history.

Hi Bob,Now, now - attention to detail please. I clearly said that the accenture re-brand was "a hoot", not that it was unsuccessful. I also went on to point out that it was nowhere near the brand disaster of Monday (one of many in the period) or the financial catastrophe of MarchFirst.As for the question of brand value - I clearly concede the factual point that accenture is highly scored in most assessments. Personally I would rather eat Charolais beef than a McDonalds, drink a local wine than a can of Carling, etc.If Juvenal was alive to day he'd probably say "brands and reality shows" instead of bread and circuses. Keeps the majority from doing too much free-thinking.