So called 'people company' that doesn't know how to look after its people
Pros
- Great work/life balance - Plenty of opportunities to train (and claim expenses back) - Some genuinely great, talented people - Plenty of opportunities to move roles, gain new experience and exposure to different areas, whether it be engineering, architecture, project management, or business analysis. - Great new office, with free drinks, and table tennis/table football.
Cons
- Assesses employee remuneration against so-called 'median' for each grade rather than against industry average, without taking into consideration individual skills/knowledge/experience. - Some teams operate within a dog eat dog culture - the louder you are generally results in more opportunities, reward and recognition. - Modesty - one of the key Capgemini values - generally not adhered to, in my 10+ years with the company I saw many many people get promoted and rewarded simply because of how much credit they took for other, quieter peoples work, as well as by standing up, doing presentations about subjects they knew very little about. One person in particular as an example received multiple promotions after singing their own praises at every opportunity offering very little substance or real benefit to the work or client they were doing. - For a business that is hot on their people initiatives, culture, diversity and equality, they do a very poor job of making male sex employees feel valued vs female counterparts. For example there was an annual celebration of International Womens Day, but no celebration of International Mens Day. - Kit not good enough meaning productivity sometimes takes a hit. I was once told to work on my personal MacBook because of how poorly my company laptop performed. Only to then be told 4 years later by the same person, (yes 4 years when my personal laptop was STILL more powerful than the garbage the business gave me) stop using your personal laptop or face disciplinary action! - Progression is slow for those where the face doesn't fit, or if you're unfortunate to work with people that are not like minded. - Usually this means picking up the slack for colleagues doing the same role, and sometimes they're on higher grades than you, that have been with British Steel > EDS > Capgemini (been TUPEd over the years), so the older colleagues on fantastic half a million £ pensions that are reluctant to embrace newer technologies and more progressive/efficient ways of working, and are just waiting to retire.
