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by compuguy 2215 days ago
For the most part, all that I've heard of Accenture seems to match what you are saying.
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A remarkably large number of job offers/bid requests I've seen start with some variation of "Accenture screwed up and [client] is looking for someone else to take over". And looking at the former co-workers that have landed there it's not even a little surprising they're that bad.
I've seen this more than once. Senior management thinks maintaining a portfolio of software applications is like flipping hamburgers: they see no problem or risks in one team of developers handing the spatula to another team. What, wasn't the one-day knowledge transfer session not enough? So, the transfer from the home-grown team to Accenture is screwed up. Let's try it again, from the Accenture team to another team; lightning cannot strike twice, can it?
It's not the transfer. Accenture (or at least some parts of it) are just that bad.
Yep. Worked for a company that was brought in to fix what Accenture messed up. Sadly they were able to regain the contract that I worked on because of some bizarre run around involving another contract.....
I believe the parent comment was talking about the shitshow that Hertz was, not Accenture.
There’s a couple of us that were on the Accenture frontend team of the Hertz project that, justifiably, became amazing friends after such a dumpster fire of a project.

Accenture was just as culpable as Hertz in terms of incompetence and negligence.

Oh no, definitely calling out ACN, where I worked at the time. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Both are bad. Every big "consulting" company sucks nowadays.
I've had good experiences with Accenture in a staff aug role, but leading projects have been disasters. Similar problems working with Deloitte.

That being said, I've had nothing but good experiences working with McKinsey.

> Both are bad. Every big "consulting" company sucks nowadays.

From what I've heard, Accenture always sucked (except at C-suite sales, which I guess is all that really matters).

Accenture tops the list though. I've worked with other consulting companies that are better compared to them.