• Orbituary@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I worked there for about a decade. It’s a poor description of the company. It’s like calling Microsoft a Database Giant. Yes, they make MS SQL, yes they’re known for that, but is that the best description of their work? No.

    When I left, Accenture had 400k employees. My friends who work there still saw this article and had the same take I did.

    So, to paraphrase someone in this comment section, “it’s kind of clear to me that some people don’t know a thing about Accenture but what the article says.”

    • Five@slrpnk.netOPM
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      8 months ago

      It’s accurate to say that I don’t know a thing about Accenture but what the article says. On a site about discussing news articles and learning new things, that’s not something to be ashamed of. And Microsoft is unambiguously a database giant, even if that’s not the way a person who worked in another tentacle of the organization would describe it.

      I think it’s telling that you and the people who still work there’s first reaction is to quibble with the true but unusual title rather than engage with the meat of the article, or even read it before discussing it, for that matter.