It was a good company, not so much now. - BI&C Solutions Developer Avanade Employee Review

2.0
Jul 17, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The projects can be challenging and there are usually opportunities to learn and grow. Self study training materials are readily available (i.e. books24x7 membership, lots of free online tutorials, large in-house knowledge base of articles and trianing materials, free MCITP test prep material and vouchers available). There are still many very good developers and architects to work with and learn from if you have the good fortune of getting on a project with them. Each employee is assigned a career manager who acts as a mentor, supervisor and advocate.

Cons

Its very difficult to get the company to send you for training courses. Pay scale is a bit below market value. Staff is expected to work overtime without compensation. Significant levels of dissatisfaction in role assignments and growth opportunities which have resulted in high attrition rates. Management appears to take little interest in staff job satisfaction. The poor medical coverage can lead to significant cost to employees in deducatables and copays. To get promoted, your career manager (immediate supervisor) need to push for your promotion. Usually this works well. However, when a career manager is overworked, apathetic, or the attrition rate is high and a staff member is assigned a new career manager every 3 months, it becomes very difficult to get a promotion.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company really cares for their employees, development, and culture Recognition for good work

Cons

Consulting in general is not what it used to be Accenture big brother is quite bureaucratic and obnoxious managing 'profiles' CEO is in London but HQ is Seattle

2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The projects are really large so you'll get great experience. The benefits are good. The people are, for the most part, really nice at the lower level.

Cons

Always restructuring. You don't actually work for Avanade you work for Accenture under the name of Avanade. Accenture is always trying to absorb or downsize Avanade and even the execs don't have real power there. Plus all work and decisions are also controlled by Microsoft, so if they're doing extremely well then Avanade does and then Accenture fights for their share of the money in some shady way.

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