Accenture Any One Work For Them?

bananarepublic

Any experience of what is like to work in accenture as a consultant. Any idea of the starting salary. Is there a lot of traveling if you do the management consultant programme. Here they are doing alot of work in Cork at the minute.

yop

there are few threads here, do a search on them lad.

useless

The hours are long, the work is sometimes OK but often deathly boring (testing, documentation, that kind of thing). Initial graduate training is quite good- 4 or 5 weeks, some of it in London & some in the US.

Travel- possible if you want it, usually to England. Can make a nice bit of money out of it on per diems if you're careful. Getting up at stupid o'clock on Monday morning to catch 630 flights gets annoying very quickly though. Also bear in mind that you'll go where the work is- even if you have your heart set on working abroad, if there's work in Dublin, that's where you're going. New grads rarely get a choice in where they're going to work unless they have a lot of skills/experience relevant to a particular industry.

Whoever told you about a lot of work in Cork is mistaken. They have a very small number of clients there.

A word of advice if you're in your final year or your postgrad and looking at milkround jobs: don't get hung up on what the first year starting salary at different places is. Think ahead a few years, think what kind of work you want to be doing, the kind of company you want to work in, that kind of thing. A couple of thousand euro in your first year shouldn't be your deciding factor. Now, down off my high horse- starting salary this year for new grads was 33k, which isn't too bad.