Capgemini reviews

- Poor benefits: medical, retirement (have to work for some time before company starts matching and then amount is average), education/certifications (Capgemini makes it difficult to justify the cost to support you EVEN when it directly relates to your job). - People have good intentions, but the culture and company system forces employees to sometimes do terrible things to other internal employees. - Capgemini claims that employees are the company's biggest assets, but company actions reveals the opposite claim thus high turn over rate. - There is no work/life balance for the average employee. You will have to learn to adjust to a new life in a new location every other project (several months to a year+). Typical work week: wake up at 3am to take the first flight out to your customer site on Monday, work from 7am-7pm everyday, get home around midnight on Thursday from flying back, wake up early on Friday to work. Weekends are for catching up, completing week/month/quarter-end administrative tasks and prepping for the following week. Rinse, lather repeat and it doesn't get easier. Although not officially stated anywhere, this is the EXPECTATION, not considered going the extra yard. Going the extra yard would be to take the very limited time you have leftover from a demanding week to spend it doing things that would help the company image such as volunteer work as company ambassador, help with campus recruitment, etc. - Full transparency and feedback does not exist, even when the context is about your performance and career development. - Senior management has been quick to side with everyone but their own employees. Does not care or "have time" to get full story, leading senior management to make, sometimes critical, decisions based on insufficient information and possibly assumptions.

The culture/values doesn't really mean anything when you barely ever interact with Cap Training for Graduates is minimal and completely different depending on department (some train very well - e.g. 3 month training period before actual work, some just throw you in with no training) - very organised with no prewritten path for many departments No official rotation - you can ask/fight to get changed but depending on your skills/experience and available positions you could be stuck doing something you hate No technical interviews for Grad software developers leads to working with people who are inexperience, have many bad practices are a pain to work with (especially when they earn the same or more than you!) Many people end up in positions unsuited to their skills (Software developers stuck operating as PMOS or Testers for years) Pay/Package is quite poor compared to other consultancies or any tech company really (Pay also doesn't take location into account) Many silly corporate videos that must be watched and are patronising People who talk the talk and tick the corporate boxes will get promoted despite not being valuable team members - hard when someone wearing a suit doing nothing gets all the credit and superior pay to the hard working delivery teams Software developers are in a way an afterthought - only now are Macbooks becoming a standard , still stuck buying rubbish lenovo/dell laptops leaving devlopers working in windows Very few projects in London ( Capgemini focuses on the projects it can win - cheaper in worse places where no other consultants want to go) Many projects are so poorly run that its killing the delivery teams - Crazy timescales, teams too small to manage and some higher up just shaking hands and saying "yes we can" - It's particularly evident when we have to hire other contractors to make up for the space Ratio of technical people to Business people is silly Still stuck using archaic corporate software (a lot of the internal software is a joke) Progression is limited in that it's slightly who you know (They'll get you onto the good projects and put in a good word ) and getting the right project - delivery isn't screamed about unless the project is pulling in massive revenue Too much focus on shifting work to offshore - It's cheaper yes but it leads to very poorly implemented solutions and more work for onshore people to fix. Often doesn't feel like you're part of the company due to the distributed nature of consultancy - it's lonely Doesn't provide as much variety as you might think due to lack of people leading to people being stuck on projects too long (1.5years+is very standard)