Leadership has no idea what it is doing - Anonymous employee Avanade Employee Review

1.0
Jan 28, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Avanade is a good place to learn Microsoft technologies. If you are lucky enough to get on a good project, the work is interesting.

Cons

If you don't get a good project, you are basically a contractor stuck out on your own at a customer site. The leadership team has no idea what they are trying to do or how to do it. All they know is that they want to grow. Strategy for this growth is missing throughout the leadership ranks.

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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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