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I had the unfortunate opportunity as an Accenture consultant to work on the Hertz redesign. It was a shit show and hands down the worst project I've ever been on. I left Accenture but not sure how much I'm allowed to talk about it.

Needless to say, leadership across ALL disciplines (mobile, front-end, backend, etc) was a fucking joke and they didn't listen to the red flags we brought up in literal sprint 1.

Sorry to hear about your Hertz experience.

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For the most part, all that I've heard of Accenture seems to match what you are saying.

I believe the parent comment was talking about the shitshow that Hertz was, not Accenture.

Both are bad. Every big "consulting" company sucks nowadays.

> Both are bad. Every big "consulting" company sucks nowadays.

From what I've heard, Accenture always sucked (except at C-suite sales, which I guess is all that really matters).

I've had good experiences with Accenture in a staff aug role, but leading projects have been disasters. Similar problems working with Deloitte.

That being said, I've had nothing but good experiences working with McKinsey.

Accenture tops the list though. I've worked with other consulting companies that are better compared to them.

There’s a couple of us that were on the Accenture frontend team of the Hertz project that, justifiably, became amazing friends after such a dumpster fire of a project.

Accenture was just as culpable as Hertz in terms of incompetence and negligence.

Oh no, definitely calling out ACN, where I worked at the time. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

A remarkably large number of job offers/bid requests I've seen start with some variation of "Accenture screwed up and [client] is looking for someone else to take over". And looking at the former co-workers that have landed there it's not even a little surprising they're that bad.

I've seen this more than once. Senior management thinks maintaining a portfolio of software applications is like flipping hamburgers: they see no problem or risks in one team of developers handing the spatula to another team. What, wasn't the one-day knowledge transfer session not enough? So, the transfer from the home-grown team to Accenture is screwed up. Let's try it again, from the Accenture team to another team; lightning cannot strike twice, can it?

It's not the transfer. Accenture (or at least some parts of it) are just that bad.

Yep. Worked for a company that was brought in to fix what Accenture messed up. Sadly they were able to regain the contract that I worked on because of some bizarre run around involving another contract.....

What’s funny is that the Hertz website became so bad that I gradually stopped using Hertz (former Presidents Circle guy). Never knew that it was because they fired their entire team and replaced it with an offshore team.

My experience with Accenture is that you start with two blokes from Accenture in your team as fellow consultants and before you know there are 10 Accenture people without knowing what they are doing. On some projects I worked with them you had test teams in Manilla which just didn't do anything so you ended up doing all testing too.

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