Capgemini Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time for less than a year

Pros – Big company which might look like a great place from outside.

Cons – Politics with neither ethical nor moral sense .

Advice to Senior Management – Channelize your efforts to something more purposeful in stead of politics which are going nowhere.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time

Pros – Good initial base comp. They recruit high-caliber students from top-25-30 MBA programs so lots of bright & talented people (who end up working on menial projects). Good benefits, decent 401(K) plan (although matching isn't quite as good as other companies where I've worked).

Cons – Your success here is based completely on where you land and which projects you end up on. If you end up in a city with good leadership, get noticed, and get staffed on a high-profile project with said leaders, then you're pretty much set - you've got yourself a clear path to Manager. If you don't, then you're pretty much screwed and have to get lucky.

There's a dearth of interesting projects. Many projects sold are very IT-focused yet they staff MBA-level management/strategy consultants on them with no interest or background in IT. But because of relatively small firm scale (~200 consultants) and how few projects are sold, you have little say in what projects you actually get to work on.

Severe lack of training opportunities. Every year, about 20 consultants in North America (<10% out of the 200+) get plucked to go to Les Fontaines, France for some annual training thing. The rest of us have some outdated online training modules to go through.

Your success at the firm and ability to get on projects is predicated entirely on networking and getting in the good graces of certain leaders, not about your skills or the quality of your work.

Company has shifted direction 5 or 6 times in the roughly 3 years that I've been with the firm and they still don't have a clear GTM strategy, which has hurt the firm's management consulting brand. Still known nationwide primarily as an IT firm.

Incentive comp is pitiful and is predicated on factors mostly outside your control (utilization is 60% of your annual KPI, so if you're not staffed, you're pretty much screwed). Offered a far-below-market signing bonus.

This firm has lost a lot of good, bright people, who've found greener pastures elsewhere. Almost everybody I know at Capgemini intends to leave as soon as they get the chance. I personally am just biding my time until I can get something better. I strongly recommend that people joining this firm reconsider their decision.

Advice to Senior Management – Be clear on your direction and what type of firm you are during the recruiting process. If you try to go after top MBA's by passing yourself off as a management consulting firm yet you staff consultants on IT and other process-oriented projects, you're going to have a lot of dissatisfied people. I feel I was sold a bag of goods when I joined the firm about the type of work I would be doing - my expectations were severely misaligned with reality. Sadly, I ended up doing the same in following years as part of the recruiting teams. Also set realistic expectations for comp growth - not giving raises and decent bonuses is a sure way to lose good people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Starting Salary
-Benefits
-Interesting Projects
-Some nice people to work with

Cons – I wasted 5 years of my career with promises of training which never came to fruition. I created and administered Sharepoint web sites at management's request. When I asked for Sharepoint certification training they refused time after time. I also performed writing duties for the team and repeatedly asked for ITIL certification which they refused time after time. They are not interested in your career. The Principals SMs, and VPs are a bunch of self-centered lowlifes.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire everyone above Principal level in Hosting and start over. TRAIN and INVEST in your people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time for less than a year

Pros – Better compensation compared to most other companies.

Cons – Other organization-wide ERP projects very few projects. Lot of dependence on few big clients.

Advice to Senior Management – Get more clients on West Coast

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time for less than a year

Pros – They pay well and you don' t have to do much, if any work at all. They over staff on their projects as many of their people are outright incompetent.

Cons – They have terrible unstructured solutions for their clients. They attempt to do as little as possible to accomplish the job.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to review your employees for competence and impose for structure for engagements.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time

Pros – unprofessional ,Worst ,never trust such company

Cons – Didnt gave joining on the day of joining .It's highyly irritating that someone resigns previous job .Reject other offers and go for joining in capgemini.And they reponds your joining has been delayed a month.A person with family-home loan ,personel loan .How he will manage .Totally unprofessional.In career of 6 years I have never seen such unprofessionalism from any company I have interacted with. I would say no one should trust such company.today I am jobless .A person with 3 offers while resigning is jobless Today.Because of this company. Such company can never grow.

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time

Pros – Good process in place and so much to learn....

Cons – Biased, regional favoritism....Results matter, people dont . ...simply put

Advice to Senior Management – you are loosing out on good talent owing to old biased professionals

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini for less than a year

Pros – No good thing to recall

Cons – Capgemini Gurgaon unit (India Unit) run by highly enexpirienced IT professionals . No culture, No ethics , No project at all. They are completely banking on one Project "CRIS" and that too is in a very bad shape...Thanks to some of the great Managers who just bluffed their leadership and got fired at last and now heading SAP Practice in KPIT Cummins..A famous person by nature whose skills can easily be checked by anyone in IT fraternity in Delhi NCR regeion !!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of his greatest Pupil who is now a SAP Manager (Never worked on SAP at all) is the only guy who is with the org from last 3 years , Bcoz of obvious reasons ............ : ) -

Human Resource has the most Inhuman face here at CG.They excel in attrition as well (IT industry avg attrition is 11% to 15%) and in CG Gurgaon it is more 70%.

It is almost impossible to find some on having more than a year experience here in LBS Gurgaon..

Advice to Senior Management – Need to learn from IT biggies in the vicinity and also to learn how to WIN the heart of employee

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time for more than a year

Pros – There is nothing good to say.....

Cons – From day one you ll be sold to other company.
At client place you ll be treated as slaves.
CG HR/MGR will never contact you , nor they ll help you in any process.
very low hikes,
You ll feel like you are working for an mechanical company, not an IT company.
No flexibility, NO choice

'LBS unit is very very worst.. Request you to never join. seriously if you join by looking at pay offered by them , definitely you ll suffer later.

Advice to Senior Management – For CG only people count matters but not humanity. HR and Management needs to improve lot in their work process. Remember CG is not a govt company. People are eager to earn but it doesn't mean that they can be treated as you wish. This is not my opinion , its 500+ people statement whom i know in CG deputed at client location. Any ways I have left your organization so pls take care of others.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time

Pros – You can sit idle for years without working

Cons – Everything else is bad here

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company