Used to be great, Now clueless - Anonymous employee Avanade Employee Review

2.0
Sep 23, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great colleagues and exceptional technical talent - Nice benefit perks such as the $2K "gadget budget" - Great individual leaders still scattered within the organization, if you're lucky enough to find one as a sponsor.

Cons

- Maniacal focus on financial targets, lacks higher mission and purpose to motivate employees - A great place to work when we launched in 2000 and all the way through the Mitch Hill years, 2000-2007. Now the company has lost its "mojo" and struggling to grow - Current leadership team turned the company from an entreprenurial, growth oriented company into a cost-cutting, policy centric organization. - Company hordes cash at the expense of employees and big, bold investments. If your best cash management strategy is to put as much cash into the Accenture piggy bank, you've just succeeded adding 0.5 cent to their quarterly earnings.

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