A Difficult Exit, a Better Beginning – Sharing My Experience Post-Accenture
I was relieved from Accenture on 12th May — asked by HR to resign immediately, or else face termination the next day. Today is 30th May, and here I am with two offers in hand — one at ₹12 LPA and another at ₹19.5 LPA (fixed).
In the last couple of weeks, 16 companies reached out to me — all through LinkedIn and Naukri, where I had updated my status as an immediate joiner.
It was frustrating and disappointing how Accenture handled my exit. Being my first company, this forceful resignation lowered my respect for the organization.
I was on the bench for four months. The HR reasoned, “We don’t have a suitable opportunity for you in our organization.” Really? You’re Accenture — a company with global reach — and you don’t have a single relevant opportunity? All this while, I was applying to every role that matched my skills from the internal demand sheet. I reached out to the listed POCs, only to be ghosted repeatedly.
If anyone from Accenture leadership is reading this, I have a sincere request: please evaluate internal talent based on knowledge, just like you assess external candidates — not based on irrelevant MCQ-based probability tests that determine outcomes unfairly.
One absurd example — my skill set was mismatched in the system, and apparently, while on the bench, I couldn't update it to reflect my actual work experience. What logic does this rule even follow? What purpose does it serve?
During my time at Accenture, I was earning a 6.5 LPA CTC with minimal hikes and toxic team dynamics. If you’re reading this — please don’t settle for less. If you're being told to resign, remember — the market has a strong demand for immediate joiners.
To those in similar situations: keep faith, upgrade your skills, and don’t let one setback define your worth.
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My journey is also same with Deloitte they put me in PIP and released me on 23rd may and now yesterday I got an offer letter for one of the company in Deloitte my package was 12.8 and now it's 21 fixed definately hamesha behtar hi milta hai kuch life mai bas hardwork and patience rakho
Congratulations that's some positive news to hear
Congrats. Similiar thing happened to me where I 4xd my ctc. I left on my own accord though.
That's not fare, those who are in project and working hard in accenture will stay at same salary for next 4-5 years with minimal hike..meanwhile guys like you were in bench and got kicked out now will earn 20lpa. Corporate is weird, it rewards losers it seems
Sometimes you need to suffer to achieve greater heights. If you hadn’t been asked to leave, you wouldn’t have. Now you have and got such an amazing offer in your hand! Be grateful and cheers to you !!
I had similar experience in Bosch Global Software Technologies from the CTC perspective...I had a great team great Manager but worse HR.I was getting 8 LPA in Bosch as a Senior Engineer with 3 years experience where as many other new joining Senior Engineers were getting 16-20 LPA just because they were from "NIT" or "IIT" , that too our work wasnt different, rather I had to train them.When I got the offer from Qualcomm for ctc 28 LPA, the HR in Bosch didn't even try to match it ...just offered me few lakhs of retention bonus and told me with a condescending tone that it's more than enough for the market rate ...like seriously.. when I have already presented my offer in front of them!!! Overall I'd say even though u have good team u may want to move out of the company whose Human Resource department is toxic and don't pay you what u deserve!!!
How much severance pay Accenture give you after exit ?
And what you said to other company when they asked reason of exit ?
I have heard they are giving 3 months of notice period payout and 2 month of severance along with Leave encashment. Anyone please update if they have received this amount the once who have got relived recently.
Thanks for sharing this, and congratulations on how u kept going with so much. Perfect example of when one door closes better ones open if u just keep going and do not give up.