Avanade Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Good place to start one's career if you're young and like to travel."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"The ability to work with .Net, working with latest technologies, and the benefits are fantastic."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Travel, long hours, low pay."

"Avanade was a great place to work."

"Betterment begins with being open to feedback."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"The talented and professional people they were able to bring on board. The travel opportunities at the time - gets old not having a structured life after a while."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Fun company to be a part of. Be ready to be flooded and have lots of time to dedicate. Better to go contract before FT."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Strong leadership willing to stand up to customers and stand behind employees, opportunities for advancement, career sponsorship, long long hours, disconnected sales and delivery teams."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize talents within consultants to help them progress into areas that will be best for them and the company. Grow consultants into sales leaders. Take a sincere interest in finding the right place within the company for individuals. Provide more work life balance. Pay more competitively and provide bonus structure."

"Some assignments better than others."

"Bitter."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"The travel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Telecommute!"

"Direction needed."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"Great people, great experience."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared and know your stuff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Process, process, process."

"Good company, great benefits, and smart people."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"Work with latest Microsoft technologies."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay focused and show your passion for technology."

"High quality/caliber people, work ethic, and service/product provided."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"High quality/caliber people, work ethic, and service/product provided. Wish I wasn't laid off due to economic crisis."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Best of luck!"

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Life of a consultant, 100% travel, does not allow for much of a healthy work life balance."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"Challenges and growth."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest. Don't be afraid to say that you don't know. Smile and don't pressure yourself but rather have fun with the interview."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Travelling time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Help your employees balance their work and life style. Pay attention to their needs."

"Good company to build solid skills, but not longevity or respect."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"At the time: excellent training program and opportunities, very smart coworkers, fantastic benefits, very supportive when I got sick and when I needed paternity leave, good variety of jobs."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be the best you can be, study hard, and high-ball them on your salary and position needs since it will be very hard to advance quickly once you have been hired. I took a step back to get the job, never do that!"

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Seemed impossible to advance due to a review process that was somewhat broken, especially past the 45 level into the management team. Seemed to be more important who you knew, not what good you did or how much the clients liked you. Cut off from superiors most of the time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fix the so-called Career Management program, improve salaries for lower-level employees, and start taking your 40-45 level employees that want to advance more seriously."

"Good place to work if you are not looking to make much money!"

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Pays very little compared to competitors/similar job titles."

"Not a good experience. Don't interview with Microsoft while working at Avanade."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"The people at the IC level."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get your traveling boots on and buy an airline club membership. Buy enough miles to achieve Gold or higher status. Get a good laptop/five night bag with a removable laptop sleeve. Do not expect clear direction on the project and do expect uncertainty. Don't sign the non-disclosure letter they ask you to sign when leaving the company that prohibits sharing your experiences while there. I didn't and I am very glad. (They did hold my last paycheck hostage trying to get me to sign the gag agreement and I never got any severance at all even though I was terminated for asking to change projects and interviewing with Microsoft). DON'T interview with Microsoft while working here. They are required to tell Avanade when they interview an Avanade employee."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"The management and politics are overwhelming. Very, very similar to Accenture. I was fired for interviewing with Microsoft and asking to be placed on a different project."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be honest and support your senior people on site. Create a clear chain of responsibility so that projects do not suffer from divided leadership. Learn that an interview is not treason against the company. Work/life balance doesn't mean completely ignoring your family and personal life."

"You'll learn a lot working here, but it will be a lot of long hours and travelling."

"It's a great place to work."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"I worked with some of the brightest people in IT and worked on the cutting edge of technologies."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"Travel was tough, I traveled a lot."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communication is key, more communication"

"A once great company."

What do you like about working at Avanade?

"Interesting projects on the cutting edge of MS technologies. Good mentorship when on project and great professional support from employees."

What don't you like about working at Avanade?

"New CEO seems more interested in maximizing the current quarters profit and thus his bonus at the expense of the company's future. Recent decisions mostly eliminate the competitive advantage Avanade had over the competition, this will cost in the end."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Refocus on what made Avanade the best implementer of MS technologies... the employees. Ultimately a consulting company only has one resource to sell, the people they put on a project. Removing the enticements that ensured employees stayed at Avanade will ultimately mean you have no better resources than any other consulting company."