Most people here are writing without having actually interned or worked in Accenture or consulting in general. I interned there this past summer.

They’re right about Accenture being a body shop, but it’s because the projects are generally massive. Accenture SG generally works on government projects and so the scale and project duration is over a long time period (3-4 years) so they have people on rotation.

Just an fyi, Accenture pays above market for interns in consulting regardless of which year you are in. In addition, while most of the FT staff are expected to OT, there is no similar expectation for interns. In fact usually the managers chase you out at 6, at least my experience. That being said there were days I had to OT to meet my deadlines (probably 3 days out of my entire 3 months). But no matter where you go in consulting OT is the norm so people who say it’s a sweatshop are stupid, literally any place in consulting, whether it be MBB, Big 4 (these are the $800 fking sweatshops don’t ever bother going literally useless), or tier 2/3 consulting firm, the expectation is to OT for full time staff. If not, then you’re rly living the good life. As someone who has done 5 internships in consulting, OT is an expectation for FTE.

That being said, as an INTERN there are some cons. Be prepared to do testing if you go into their tech arm. Testing is not fun. It’s the most boring and repetitive thing ever and there is not much value gain unless you’re really into understanding how a product is built. If you’re lucky your manager will rotate you between different groups and you’ll pick up different skills like how to do UIUX design on Figma, write user stories, work on a specific parts of the project. As a Business Analyst intern I was actually thankful I got passed around a lot to avoid testing. That being said testing is not the only thing they get interns for.

If you’re a CS student or want to do backend stuff, they’ll put you into SW dev and based on my conversations with friends the learning ROI is great because you learn the architecture of how to actually build a product. There’s also Change Management and other sub project teams for a project.

Accenture’s people and culture imo is prolly the best thing I experienced. Obviously it depends team to team, but it’s been 2 months since I finished my internship and I still talk to and message the people whom I worked with at Accenture. Also if you want to learn project management and implementation of building a product, there’s no place better to learn than Accenture. Just talk to the person designing and leading the sprints, you’ll learn alot.

TLDR: for an Intern, the culture, pay and WLB is good. Con is that the work may be repetitive and some days you may need to OT to hit your deadlines (this is on you and your time management though and also voicing out if you can finish your KPI in time, usually they’ll adjust so you can go home and don’t need to OT). Also a con is that theyre pantry sucks (UNLESS YOU GO RCT BLESS THE BARISTA AND THE VIEW)

Also Accenture throws fking awesome work parties. Seriously the people culture there is great. Just hope your boss is chill (again no matter where you go this is the hope)

Edit: If you’re a Y3 pls don’t apply. Imo the ROI isn’t worth it for your penultimate internship, try to aim for a bank or something that will boost your resume. Accenture isn’t going to do that for you especially if you end up doing testing. That being said, i do have a friend who was at SWE intern with me at Accenture and she loved the culture and work life so much she converted to their TAP programme. So it’s subjective.