Accenture: An insider guide - Gymkhana

At a Glance
What Insiders Say
In the interview, “I was asked how you handle team problems, individuals who
don’t work, people who miscommunicate. It was easy but you have to be
honest.”
“It’s very different from working in a traditional position, because you’re
working on a project. It focuses you.”
Career Ladder
• Accenture employees follow a defined career path with set milestones. New
employees move from analyst, to consultant, to manager, to senior manager,
and in some cases, to associate partner and partner. IT employees work as
programmers before moving into system analyst positions, and then in some
cases, into manager roles.
• Undergrads who join the firm as analysts can generally move to the
consultant level in 2 to 3 years. Undergrads entering into strategy start as
business analysts and may leave to go to business school after 3 or 4 years.
• Midcareer hires join at almost any level, depending on their programming or
industry experience.
Hiring Estimates
Accenture is hiring 30,000 people worldwide for its fiscal year ending August
31, 2004. About 8,000 of those positions are in the United States, and of those,
1,600 to 1,800 are likely to be new analysts that have just graduated or have a
few years of experience.
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