This company always claim economy not doing well, no budget. Yet they can still hire new people.
When hiring externally, their career level is determined by their existing paycheck. That is why you can sometimes see someone not performing at their level.

You can be in accenture for years and yet it is harder to promote internally. With this hiring practice, the slots for your promotion is taken up by external hires. This issue at hand plus the huge amount backlogs of L10~L13 means the lower end of the career levels have no chance of promotion. And when they do, you will see some dubious people getting promoted.

Accenture is truly a fk up place. Good luck.