Avanade reviews

Avanade is a fantastic company filled with really great, really fun, really brilliant people. It's not the sort of place you can hide, do as little as possible and collect a paycheck. It's a wonderful place to work if you're passionate about technology and enjoy other people who are passionate about technology. Some projects are brutal (CRAZY long hours, abusive clients, unreasonable deadlines, etc) but I always walk away from a brutal project feeling like I've grown the most. And when you're on a brutal project, management recognizes it and works hard to make it easier (extra bench time at the end, praise in the middle, typical to get promoted at the end of an exceptionally bad project if you continued to perform well, etc). I personally love the travel aspect of it, getting to fly into new cities and getting to know new people and new technologies. I am constantly blown away at how brilliant all my co-workers are, and continually impressed with the leadership of the company. Management goes out of their way to treat us well and to make sure our experience at Avanade is good. They treat us like we're the customer because they know that if they treat us well and we're happy, then we treat the customer well and make the customer happy.

Avanade focuses on development of it's employees. All employees are encouraged to get some amount of training in a given year. There are a wide variety of clients out there for us and always something new to do. They help you find the area you excel in and focus your abilities in that direction. Every employee is assigned a career manager to help guide them through their advancement and navigate the waters of the corporate side of things. Management, regionally at least, make an effort to get to know their employees and go out of the way to meet them.