Avantages
Avanade provides a great work-life balance along with a tight-knit international community ready to help each other out as necessary. Of course, like any other consultancy, it comes with its share of politics (in particular with Accenture, one of it's parent companies that treats it like an orphaned child), but not enough to deter employees away from enjoying their jobs.
Inconvénients
Projects feel more like staff augmentation as opposed to consulting gigs. There needs to be more emphasis placed on downward communication from above, including information about the future of each region, current and existing projects, etc in order to promote a better understanding of what's going on in other parts of the vast regions that Avanade has.