Technology Consulting - Group Manager Avanade Employee Review

2.0
Feb 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good place to work if you are a .Net coder - $2,000/year to spend on gadgets - Pretty good health benefits

Cons

- Laser focus on selling to CIOs makes it a poor place to work for business solution consultants (ERP, CRM, BI) - New career model has virtually stopped all career advancement - Shift from regional to service line organization has drastically reduced leadership roles and opportunities - Old boys club mentality among leadership (most worked together at Accenture or Microsoft Consulting Services) - 80% of business is hand-me-down work from Accenture - Very poor work/life balance

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5.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company really cares for their employees, development, and culture Recognition for good work

Cons

Consulting in general is not what it used to be Accenture big brother is quite bureaucratic and obnoxious managing 'profiles' CEO is in London but HQ is Seattle

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The projects are really large so you'll get great experience. The benefits are good. The people are, for the most part, really nice at the lower level.

Cons

Always restructuring. You don't actually work for Avanade you work for Accenture under the name of Avanade. Accenture is always trying to absorb or downsize Avanade and even the execs don't have real power there. Plus all work and decisions are also controlled by Microsoft, so if they're doing extremely well then Avanade does and then Accenture fights for their share of the money in some shady way.

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