Career & Application at Accenture

Hi there,

It is similar to a typical case study that MBBs offer.

Best,

Mehdi

Hi!

It mainly refers to the organizational level at which their client projects sit. Accenture Strategy still rarely conducts strategy projects at the board level of billion dollar corporations. This is still the domain of MBB. And even at the immediate layer below, where functional executives or business line CEOs need strategic help, you will find MBB and Oliver Wyman / Strategy& / Kearney / Roland Berger more often than Accenture Strategy. This is a global average view - of course in particular markets, the situation might be different.

Cheers, Sidi

Accenture is a direct competitor to Big 4 in most of the projects they get: Technology Implementation, IT infrastructure projects, Cloud Architecture etc.. It is very focused on implementing IT strategies and has the necessary workforce and technical knowledge to carry long functional consulting projects.

Neverthless, ACN also tries to branch up the towards more strategic projects with Accenture Strategy. But most of the time, this team ends up selling more Technology work to their clients and is more perceived as salesmen than true strategy consultants.

Now, more specifically to ME: Accenture Strategy is definitely not comparable to MBB or other T2 powerhouses. Compensation is very low, more comparable to Big 4 and projects are often the implementation of competitors technology strategies. They have strong leadership from worldwide best B-schools, but they often miss out on recruiting best UG talents due to low prestige and remuneration. They are however very present in Abu Dhabi and KSA within almost every Technology related public initiative.

Overall, ACN is surely a great firm with a very avant-gardiste outlook to consulting, but doesn't yet resonate with the prestige and standards of MBB/T2.

Definitely agree with the previous comment about asking HR more details about the call. Specifically you want to know whether this is an interview (always treat any call as an interview) and what type of questions you can expect on the call

Since you were referred to the position from a senior person there is usually an obligation on their end to at least have 1 round to assess your fit for the role

In terms of prep - read up as much as possible about the field you are interested in and have a list of genuine questions prepared for him. The more interested you are the higher the chance of you being formally interviewed for the role

All the best,

Udayan