Accenture
About Accenture
Accenture plc is a multinational professional-services company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company traces its origins to the consulting practice of Arthur Andersen, which was established as Andersen Consulting in 1989 and renamed Accenture on January 1, 2001 following separation from Arthur Andersen. Accenture became a public company in 2001 with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Accenture provides strategy, consulting, technology, operations, industry, and creative services to clients across a wide range of industries. Its services span digital, cloud, security, application services, infrastructure services, business-process services, supply-chain transformation, customer experience, and creative work delivered through Accenture Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Accenture Song. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ACN and serves clients in more than 120 countries with a global workforce of approximately 750,000 people. India is one of Accenture's largest country workforces, with major delivery and innovation centres in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Kolkata, and other cities supporting consulting, technology, operations, and Industry X engagements globally. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Accenture is structured around the Associate Software Engineer and other entry-level programmes that target software-engineer, infrastructure-engineer, business-process-services, and analyst roles, sourced through structured campus placements at Indian engineering and arts-and-science colleges and through direct applications on the Accenture India campus and lateral careers portals.