Chapter I: Consulting Company

I joined Accenture on 16 October 2019. Even though I posted this in July 2020, I am writing this on 18 March 2020, thus it has been a rough 5 months for me. On the first day, I went to Accenture Jakarta Office at Wisma BNI 46. We (new joiners) had our administration done and was left waiting for the laptop until 3pm or so. There was 6 of us. We had our project placement, Nikita is the only one who was placed in ERP, the rest were placed in Digital Core. After we set up the laptop, we had what so called mini NJO (new joiner orientation) about security, confidentiality, DTE, and many other I might not have concern on. We were asked to contact our PMO for further information on the project. We were instructed to come to the client project site. I went there by bike, the rest ordered Grab car. Arrived at around 5 pm. Interesting. 5 pm and there is no sign of going home. I was introduced to the team mates. My supervisor showed me the deck about Service Bus, I had not heard the terms before. Feels like all is new. I learnt nothing in university. At around 6pm, Design Team Lead briefed us the high level of a service bus and project teams. Some of the previous new joiners also in the briefing. They said they usually go home at 8pm or 9pm and come to work at 10am. Whaat?! I might have misstepped this time. Big big mistake.

I have resented working at Accenture since day one. I don't like the culture, might be different for different client though, but I think they are all the same, working til late.

I got an interview invitation from BCA on 23 Oct 2019 for 3 different divisions. I asked to separate the sessions so I was scheduled on 28 Oct for GSIT and 29 for SLPE. Got positive feedback from SLPE. Interesting job with lower salary. I was that stupid I rejected the offer. I regret my choice all the time. Dear Pak Adit, the one who interviewed me at SLPE BCA, should you read this, I am very sorry for my stupidity. He is so kind and easy going. We had fun during the interview process, even we discuss about back problem? Can't forget it Pak, I now go to Chiropractor. Haha must be fun working with you. So that is all for BCA. I wished I could turn back time and alter my decision.

Here I am, month 5 at Accenture. Working til late. Accenture has a lot of interesting employees. Many are overseas graduates, many are from top public uni in Indonesia, many from Binus (HAHA). There is always something unique in someone, making me realize I am just a small small peanut who has learnt nothing. Most of them are welcomed if we have questions. Many will guide you through. So, team mates are nice. Cultural are not. Tasks was light in the first 2 months. The next? Don't ask. Working at a consulting company just began. I was given the task to design OSB migration to ESB (with a lot of help of course). I made many mistakes.. Pod names.. error code.. validation.. I feel inferior. I feel stupid. I feel I underperformed.

Remember I said most people here are helpful? Well, bad news, there is always toxic people. I encountered some as time goes by. First they look kind, then after several encounters, their natural attitude showed up. There is this one man who wants to do things easily, blames people, and is temperamental. Just one man. Always giving me the thought of quitting. Then I just realize another one is also toxic because I asked for a favor, hmm several times and it seems to annoy him. Nonetheless, it might be me who is sensitive and annoying. Still, giving me the thought. Though other are very helpful. Even only small number of toxic people, they ruin all the good people. I am struggling with this.

Dear valued individuals out there, this is my generalization. Consulting companies have numerous of great people, little are toxic. Do not wish you could go home at 5pm working for IT consulting companies. Do not join if you want a fix 9-5 job. What is written in the agreement letter is just for formality. I really wished I knew this before.

Feel free to contact me should you want to know more.