Avanade reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(3,815 total reviews)
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Rodrigo Caserta

49% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Avanade has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,815 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Avanade employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Oct 2, 2009
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Pros

- Free cutting edge training for Microsoft technologies. - decent benefits

Cons

- Hard to get recognized, you basically have to be a paper professionals in order to get prompted - Most PMs are from (India & Philippine) Accenture and are highly incompetent, they speak minimal English and have no clue how to operate the projects and unable to translate business problems into technical projects, also had hard time of understanding technical people. If you ask why, it is all about more (relatively) cheap labors. - Bad (compare with other industry competitors) pay - Very incompetent HR people, avanade HR relies on an in-house application to generate interview questions. If your answer do not match their standard answer, they consider you as unqualified. Hey, there is always more than one way to solve the questions, don't put your business logics on top of the technical people - You will be ignored if you are not a manager or a high-up.

3.0
Sep 27, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great place if you want to hone your development skills on the Microsoft Technology Platform. As a Microsoft Gold Partner you have good access to get your hands on and work with their latest technology. Salary is pretty good for a programmer, benefits are decent as well. Training and conferences are available, but its about timing and who you know.

Cons

-Avanade is essentially an Accenture workforce, they run the show on projects as well as create the organizational strategy as they comprise 80 percent of our Board of Directors. -Sales force is ineffective, so all our work comes from Accenture, which makes it tough to control your own destiny. -Sr. Management is so focused on hitting financial goals that they overlook investment into the future. This is probably because most of management come from technical backgrounds and don't have business aptitude. -The layoffs over the past year seem to have no pattern, so they may have been personal. -Diversity seems to be an issue, don't see many women, blacks, or Latinos in the company as well as high level positions. Most of the workforce is white or from India.

1.0
Sep 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The good: microsoft technology, benefits, competitive salaries in peridos boom. The opportunity to work with Accenture and Microsoft as an external collaborator or incorporated into the template of one of them (requires leaving the company because they have signed non-aggression agreements).

Cons

Avanade is a good company to start work, if there is no experience profesional.Un good place to start as a consultant or developer in Microsoft technologies, although it is true that such experiences do not provide the group itself but are obtained through collaboration or the work undertaken with Accenture and Microsoft. The main business of the Spanish subsidiary, is to transfer staff to the aforementioned companies (commonly known as bodyshopping) The Spanish subsidiary has nothing to do with the work done at Corp, which is considered by all pretty good and professional. The business model of the company is based on reactive management, the bulk of profits are derived from projects that Accenture yields and the remainder of the assignment of consultants to Microsoft. For this reason, show little competitive with experienced partners, as there is any initiative to generate business because everything is already given. Their fees are too high for the level of work they can develop, so in periods of "crisis" can not withstand the pull and fired indiscriminately. The support of this model is a hierarchical pyramid which, curiously, has a rather low vertex, the number of commercials, managers and presales is below desired levels in a company that tries or be sold in Spain's leading technology projects rarely Microsoft.En lead projects, staying in the background after their big sponsors and when they do they are small-scale projects, so they lack the experience to work for themselves in large accounts. The working environment is very sterile and offices are very small. The project development is based on the lack of planning and technical approval of tenders. 90% of their own projects "Avanade is executed on the basis of hours extra unpaid or compensated" from consultants or developers. Account Managers and Directors inefficient and affluent business model more like a consultant than an ETT, lack of vision and market strategy (this year have raised rates to their customers so unreasonable, why no projects have left many of the employees who were fired after), no career, professional work environment and not too friendly if you work on proprietary projects. The higher the position you hold, the worse your reception, because the lack of professionalism is defended tooth and nail. Indifference will be the reward of lower levels. Let every man lay in the balance their interests and decide for yourself.

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