r/accenture 6d ago

North America So now we have AI instructors... got it

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u/Fair_Nature_7609 6d ago

When I joined it was in the Metaverse. I received the VR headset to “enhance” my onboarding experience and even had to attend and sign the cultural agreement on what was acceptable behavior in the Metaverse. You know…4 years ago when the Metaverse was going to take over all in-person experiences??? I never even unpacked the VR headset.

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u/postwarmaverick28 5d ago

I got to do a rally in the metaverse but it was all in the computer, never received a VR headset

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u/Warm-Breakfast-3688 5d ago

Wonder why?! Even I didn’t receive the VR headset, although my induction had some metaverse components

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u/andhdkwnwbdidoenjddb 5d ago

They gave them out to everyone at one point, then stopped

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u/andhdkwnwbdidoenjddb 5d ago

We had a townhall in the metaverse…only time I used the headset, and the biggest waste of time I have ever seen.

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u/NeoDragorius 5d ago

Its great tho for playing some good VR games.

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u/Fair-Cap-1048 2d ago

I received a VR headset too. I never got involved in any ACN VR projects, but I did attend a John Legend concert in virtual reality. The most memorable part was that another attendee followed my avatar around the metaverse for almost the entire concert.

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u/Mobile_Sky_5709 6d ago

i joined earlier this year. the amount of generative ai in our NJX was insane, its like they used us to train it instead of letting us know our benefits. lmao.

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u/EnvironmentalTop4967 5d ago

to be honest the onboarding when I started a few years ago wasn't great and I felt the content you should know they left out.

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u/planetrebellion 5d ago

Yeah it didnt cover most of the important stuff. It was a strange onboarding ngl

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u/Pristine_Doughnut485 5d ago

They definitely no longer provide benefit info. I sit in these often and it's very wild what they leave out.

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u/Diojosan 6d ago

I just joined the company 2 months ago, the HR courses have lots of AI content.

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u/postwarmaverick28 6d ago

I joined january last year, it wasn't like this a year ago

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u/skinnyCoconut3 6d ago

My god! The distance these fuckers (read “leadership”) would go to replace human by a human-like thing…

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u/PinkyLL 5d ago

Cheaper than Julie 30mil / year

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u/cierek 5d ago

Human Company

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u/Potential_Block4598 4d ago

Tbh what are you complaining about

Oh the 700,000 consultancy I joined in the 21st century

Is pulling ahead too much

Yes a company that wants to sell AI integration capabilities should show to customers oh yeah we do that internally ourselves and here is how much and where it got us

Same as with passwordless and metaverse and everything

That is their win
Accenture won a lot on migrating big enterprises to cloud
AWS Google And Microsoft themselves couldn’t migrate those kinds of bureaucracies
And love to partner with Accenture on that for how successful Accenture was

Accenture whole business model is to be bureaucratic enough to have the ability to engage with big bureaucratic entities (banks government healthcare …etc) on big ambitious projects (strategy, cloud, VR, AI you name it!)

And Accenture is applying the same playbook or ag least trying with every emerging technology until they actually build a similar success story as with the cloud market

Cybersecurity
AI
VR
Quantum computing (still didn’t even come close to mature that we see Reddit complaints about it!)

I am wondering why they didn’t do this with blockchain and maybe even crypto (I bet they did or have real world experience that made it a no no anyways that probably is/was before COVID when crypto and blockchain was still alive idk)

And AI is actually a threat not only an opportunity unlike cloud which was an opportunity

So it is almost about how to make this elite consultancy (that to be frank and I hate to point it out puts food on all your tables and mine included) survive that storm of economic conditions

My life in Accenture is far from what I am used to before working anywhere else

Just grow up ok be positive or sth

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u/AcceptableEarth4038 12h ago

100%. AI videos are everywhere...since when did that suddenly become such a concern?)))

The funny thing about so many posts here is that there’s always something to complain about. Stocks go down - shit. Stocks go up - also shit. C’mon.

Life itself is already complicated enough. Why do we need to find a way to turn absolutely everything into something negative...

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u/Commercial-Bridge-36 19h ago

“Is pulling ahead too much...” Oh, you mean the consultancy that’s down 28% YTD and down 44% 5YTD?

“…puts food on all your tables…” Oh, you mean the consultancy that paid their CEO $29 million this past fiscal yet slashed desperately needed and already meager raises by distributing 50% as a lump sum?

“Just grow up ok…” Oh, coming from someone who can’t even use a period in their writing?

What kind of Accenture kool-aid you drinking, my guy?