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Accenture Federal

The employee turnover at Accenture’s Federal division is staggering. It is so extreme that it is highly abnormal and a major red flag. Think about this. If you are buying consulting or tech, ask about attrition levels, you will be surprised with what... read more
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Acquisition related layoffs at Accenture

Now that we have acquired Certus Solutions, do we know what kind of consolidation layoffs are we looking at? I know that it is the acquired company that usually gets hit more, but with Accenture I am never sure. I am positive we will have some cuts... read more
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Q3 layoffs

Found this: Accenture taking on water! Layoffs in the digital and Federal sectors. and this: Several sectors within Accenture are hemorrhaging cash. Layoffs coming before Q3 earning results. in another thread. I was wondering if anybody here has more... read more
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Will India layoffs spill over to U.S.?

layoff are on here in india, not sure of any focus on digital, but many of our US counterparts seem to have moved suddenly and new folks taking over as part of consolidation and many old ones are not contactable anymore....laid off for sure If... read more
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Layoff in Accenture is a reality

Layoff in Accenture is a reality. It is fine if the decision is due to the bad financial performance of the company or the bad performance of the employee, even after given with a warning. What happens on the ground is head count reduction in each... read more

Sr Manager

They will wait for 4 weeks on bench and will lay you off without any warning. They do not care what good you have worked in past. It's good if you are starting as freasher, otherwise I will suggest you look for yourself.

2018 Accenture UK Redundancies

I am concerned that we'll have redundancies again and that things will get worse in 2018. You never know with Accenture, sometimes it's OK here sometimes it's just crazy. Uncertainty is the only constant here - things keep changing and if we do not... read more

Accenture Bangalore Job Cuts

I am surprised that we do not have many messages on job cuts in Bangalore. The whole IT sector, non only Accenture if affected by job cuts. The techie unemployment continue to rise and with the slow down it's getting harder to find jobs, especially... read more
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Leave Accenture if you have a chance

End of Aug, early Sept when they realize they were significantly over budget or cannot find the budget for tech investments they want they will go after especially Internal Sr Managers in the name of "Recovery," and push them out the door, especially... read more

PTO Changes

The PTO used to start at 25 days for all Accenture resources - they changed this so the carrot is gone - this is for the USA only - not sure how other countries treat this as I am sure Europe gets a ton of PTO... Anyhow, now they give you 16 days of... read more

Be careful

Accenture shoves out talented people all the time when they are not meeting their CCI number and under constant pressure from Jo Deblaere and his cost cutting goons to take heads out and put them in India or BA. Then promise of world class... read more

Accenture India Layoffs

Accenture is laying off big time in India. They have brought a new appraisal process last year(2016) under the guise of doing away with bell curve. But in reality, the new appraisal process has been used to brutally earmark the employees under "Need... read more

Nobody is safe

Accenture will soon be taken over (bought) by one of the bigger companies and the Managers, Senior Managers and above who are non-technical from US/Canada/UK/Australia/NZ/India/China/Phillipines will be laid off in big numbers. Since they are being... read more

Accenture India Layoffs

Is it true that there will be large layoffs soon? I hear that CTS and Capgemini are in the process of introducing large retrenchment in India - I am curious how this may impact Accenture.

Accenture Canada Layoffs

Any updates about layoffs in Canada - Resources group? Please share it if you have more info, I know there was a thread on this a few years ago but nobody is talking about layoffs at Accenture right now...
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Layoffs are happening on a regular basis

Layoffs are happening on a regular basis in other global locations as well. They get rid of people as soon as they don't think they need them any longer, irrespective of performance etc.

Accenture India Layoffs

Accenture laying off the resources even those are working in Accenture more than 5 years and they are not looking their contribution in this tenure. I will suggest please do not join this company, they are giving good hike just for sake of demand... read more

Verizon Wireless, Unions and Accenture

Accenture has been in talks with VZ for a while now to take over VZW call centers except for the 6 that are covered currently by tax abatements in AL, SC, NC, and IL. VZ will run out the abatements and eventually rebuild overseas. Check the state... read more

Laid off in March and still haven't found a job.

Laid off mid march and i still haven't been able to find work as a consultant. what is going on out there? Are other big firms hiring? not hiring experienced consultant? Why am i not getting call backs? too many consultants laid off at one time... read more

Internal Role - UK

I have my eye on an internal vacancy advertised on w3. It seems like an excellent fit but at the bottom it says something like "due to blah blah we can only hire from the Cloud (nee middleware) division. Now, I'm actually attached to Tivoli which... read more
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Can a manager force you to take PTO time?

Seriously, I am on a project and we are having major budget issues - my manager mentioned that I should consider taking PTO to help with the budget. I've been accumulating PTO as I am planning a family thing and I do not want to do this - but she is... read more

Proposal Work - Exposed?

Layoff's happening if you're on the bench for how long? I am seriously worried now, i have been on the bench since Jan but working on proposals and packages consistently - just not on projects.

Experienced Hires

Experienced hires are always at risk of layoffs at Accenture because they are not as well networked, get unknowingly taken advantage of by the old guard culture as there are so many things they don't know: Tricks to survive, Crony networks that can... read more

2 weeks notice

my husband got the notice today that he's being laid off. 2 weeks notice. they told him "we over-hired last year". what about my family? we have a child and i make pennies a year at a nonprofit. this is terrible. i feel so despondent.

Organizational Changes

An interesting read: Since I left Accenture, I have thought a lot about how the operating model has changed the firm. Its hard to argue with success as Accenture weathered the financial crisis well and the stock is hitting new all-time highs. Yet, my... read more

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