There is opportunity for growth at the company, though I have found it to be very slow. You work with a lot of people, so it is sometimes difficult to stand out above the crowd. There are not clear guidelines of how to move up in the company, so it can at times be discouraging when you don't know when your next window of opportunity for a promotion will be.

Consultants at Accenture travel consistently 4 days out of the week. It was great at first, but it gets to be very tiring and I find myself wanting to stay home more and more. Don't get me wrong, the travel is fun and exciting when you just get out of college, but eventually you will get burnt out.

Accenture has a good company culture. Everyone is friendly and open, and I find it easy to pick up a conversation with anyone at the office. I work about 50 hours a week. I have found that Accenture travels a lot, even for a consulting firm. This is great for me because I'm young, have all of my expenses paid when I travel, and love experiencing all the different cities.

Accenture is pretty competitive in their salary. I got in the firm in 2001, when most firms are not hiring. I had a lower, but in 5 years, I doubled my base salary. I also get some of the best training here.

The work here depends on the varies projects. A typical work week is about 40-60 hours. People have mixed experiences about the people they work with. Generally, the people are nice and supportive. There are many travel opportunities. It could get a little boring if you are a strategic consultant on an IT project, but you can also learn a great deal. Overall, it's a pleasant experience.

The advancement opportunities follows a pretty rigid format as follows.
Analyst to Consultant - 2 yrs.
Consultant to Manager - 3 yrs.
Manager to Senior Manager - 3 yrs.
Senior Manager to Senior Exec. - 3 yrs.

This is good in the sense that you are climbing the latter and advancement is possible and rather simple. But the downside to this is that there are rarely early advancements. So there is little separation between the people who work twice as hard.

There are all types of people at Accenture. You'll meet the fun, open, and friendly professionals, as well as the closed, introverted professionals who don't like to hang out after work. It is a very varied environment and it greatly depends on the office you are staffed in. Before you decide to join Accenture, make sure you like the company culture at the office you will be working at.

It depends on where in the world that you are in. Generally, it's around $65,000 plus expenses .

There are several rounds of interview. It depends on the region of the office. Typically there are the "get to know" interview, a psychometric test, and a case interview. Some times they have case interviews in forms of case competitions and have them in groups. In general the process is somewhat tough. You definitely need to be prepared and know your stuff.

The culture is generally relaxing, but it all depends on what kind of projects you are on. Dress code is generally business casual unless there is a specific requirement by the client on their site. The people are usually nice and supportive which makes the atmosphere very friendly and social. Networking in this business is important and all the people that work here knows that. Therefore is easy to get to know everyone.

When I entered Accenture, I had the impressions that there was more business consulting involved than IT consulting. I guess that's why my experience hasn't been too great. All of the work that you do is systems and IT related. I am disappointed because I wanted to get into more business and management type consulting. If you like IT and systems, then you'll love Accenture.

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