Accenture?

[wackadu]

What roles have people had at Accenture?

Developer roles that have been outsourced? Permie consultant roles? or general roles like in HR, Finance, PMO etc.. that sort of thing?

Is the "work till you drop" attitude the same regardless of the role?

[Ardesco]

[QUOTE=Denny][QUOTE=oxtailsoup]Exactly. My role is likely to be 12 months minimum. It is verbally agreed as 12 months (as safe as the paper its written on). However the contract is for 3 months and they have a 28 notice period (I have a 7 day notice period).

No Accenture engaged contractor has a client notice period of that length. Even if your own contract with the agency says so. It's strictly 24 hours for the first month, 1 week from weeks 4-8 and 1 month after 3 months. Accenture HR Services do all the recruiting, so if you were hired via the agency through that route you need to be forwarned about this.

Bear in mind the contract is with his agency. I would hold the agency to thier contract and bill them accordingly

[Robwg]

Is the "work till you drop" attitude the same regardless of the role?

When I worked there (as a permie) - I used to knock off each night at 5:00.

Basically - the work to you drop thing is largely because the majority of their employees are of the 'highly enthusiastic, very career minded but not actually all that good' variety - so they have to put in the hours.

I was a technical architect on an Oracle implementation. Stayed about 2 months.

[errorista]

Accidenture,

This is what they are good at?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19092006/22...-nhs-deal.html

[malvolio]

Fail to deliver anything, walk away without an exit strategy and still charge £100m. Sounds pretty fair to me...

[Troll]

James Hall, the Accenture executive responsible for the firm’s £2bn contract with the NHS’s National Programme for IT, has been appointed as the first chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service.

Hall will be responsible for £5.8bn ID card programme – currently on hold pending a review as part of a “root and branch examination of the Home Office’s policies and programmes"

He will also be responsible for the work of the passport service, where the recent collapse of a new online application service – revealed in July – and the forthcoming introduction of biometric passports will present challenges ahead.

Hall is not a stranger to the difficulties of major public sector IT programmes – earlier this year Accenture announced a £260m write-off on its 10-year NPfIT contracts, predicting substantial losses on NHS work for the next three years.

[Mordac]

No need to worry about the introduction of ID cards for the next few decades then.

[errorista]

James appears to be experienced in failure.

Just the man for the job.

[Troll]

James appears to be experienced in failure.

Just the man for the job.

Is DreamTurbine.com broken?

Doesn't seem to be a lot there to do

[errorista]

works OK from here

You need to be logged in to use the database though.

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