Accenture Vice President Product Development Chennai Reviews

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Thought leadership to develop applications and products to drive our clients thoughts to accelerate to the future. We design and develop the next step strategies. This role requires one to understand and leverage latest technology, innovate and develop products, re-use existing applications and methods and work in SAFE agile framework. This means collaborating with multiple internal teams to ensure approach and delivery alignment. There is need to promote and make visible products within internal audience to ensure everyone can provide their best using automations and accelerators. Work life balance is tough but this I beleive happens in most companies specially along release cycles.WFH is good part. Teams are spread across geographies and locations gives ability to work in multi cultural teams and visibility to larger teams. We can also switch profiles within Accenture and that allows us growth and knowledge. Learning tools are excellent and are better than many external Coursera or edx. Learning specially are delivered according to levels, where a Leader training is different from an Developer training, Sales training, Architect training. Promotions are fast at lower levels....Read More

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Long hours which make it difficult for family many times is a big factor. Recognition at higher level is a sum total of the "influencer" who knows you + do they like you + how you performed in relation to your peers + how your manager/lead knows and understands what you did. Many leads judge you based on how you engaged them and made them visible to higher leadership and not on what you delivered alone which is a big negative factor. Politics play a big factor for growth. Very few leaders actually take that additional step to recognise you actual contributions. When workdays extend to all days of the week across months it becomes quite difficult but the worse part is no one recognises you and your team for all the extra effort to make it within impossible timelines. Those deserving are not rewarded....Read More

Work Details

It is good experience to drive at thought leadership level, innovate, collaborate and work as professional internal and external.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.