Accenture Associate Software Developer reviews

You will be underpaid usually, people above your level will have no skills still double your salary

After completing training in December, I was moved to the bench in March and remained there for nearly a year, with no meaningful project calls and very limited learning or upskilling opportunities, leading to skill stagnation. When I was finally hard-locked to a project (NBN), I was released within a week without clear justification and was wrongly marked with a project refusal. Although I was later re-onboarded, the experience remained unstable. I was not assigned any real project or client deliverable work. Instead, I was given unrelated learning tasks (such as studying a basic Java backend text application) and weekly review calls were conducted on this material. Despite completing the assigned tasks and showing improvement, a negative review was written claiming that client deliverables were delayed because of me, even though I had no ownership of any deliverables. Management behavior was unprofessional and demotivating, feedback felt biased, and I was eventually removed from the project again and placed on a PIP, which felt more like a forced-exit process than genuine performance management.