Avanade reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(3,806 total reviews)
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Rodrigo Caserta

50% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Avanade has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,806 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Avanade employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 17, 2020

Don't do it, it's not worth!

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Pros

Nothing except the easy interview

Cons

Honestly this company is a joke. The interview is easy, and they will probably offer anyone a job, but that's because they will let you go in a minute. So, if you have a fulltime permanent job, please do not leave it for this company. All their job is project based, and they rarely have enough project, so they are constantly hiring and letting people go, like it means nothing to them. And yes, they will lie to you and say, if there's no project you can "go on the bench and learn" that's BS, once you go on the bench, you are as good as out the door. And even if you do get another project, you must interview for the project with every other person on the bench, these projects have no clear guideline on its requirements. So, most of the time, projects are not assigned based on skills, but based on friendship. Their management clearly have no clue what they are doing and constantly mismanaged their budget. If you want a job that offers zero job security and where you will constantly be interviewing for your position, then be my guest. Trying to save you a lot of time and grief. I can't believe I left a very good secured job for this joke of a company. Lesson well learnt.

3.0
Dec 1, 2018

Software Consultant

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Pros

Ability to work in different client offices, fellow consultants are highly skilled due to hiring process.

Cons

Every time a contract is up, you have to go through the entire hiring process for a new client. You are essentially an independent contractor that makes less money (Avanade takes ~60% of what they are charging clients for you). Being a Consultant, clients will not want you to go through any training during chargeable hours. The only time you can go through training during office hours is when you are on the bench (don't have a client). Avanade expects you to have 85% charge-ability (time not spent on bench). While you are on the bench, you are expected to be actively applying for new contract positions. This forces you to learn things on your personal time. Dev skills have nothing to do with a promotion to Senior Consultant. Avanade expects you to do presentations at lunch-and-learns, bring in consultants on to your project by marketing the company to clients, come to company events outside of office hours, etc. Clients aren't tech companies so you won't be working on very innovative/interesting projects or with very talented developers (for the most part), even if you work out of the "innovation hub" like I do. I've been through 3 Career Advisors (and managers) within less than 2 years and none of them are really looking out for my career growth (not to mention they don't actually have any insight into what my client side contributions are). They just want me to satisfy the business and distract me by making me do training on my personal time. PASSIONATE, TALENTED DEVS - STAY AWAY FROM THE SERVICE INDUSTRY!

1.0
Dec 8, 2020

Top worst work culture

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Pros

Fruits and snacks are available if that makes you happy.

Cons

People compete internally to get each other off the client projects so they can get on or stay on the project! That could be your direct manager or peers whose support is crucial to your sucess. It's by far, top worst work culture that I have seen.

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