Capgemini Reviews

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

Pros – Lots of career opportunities available

Cons – Depends if you are hired in us or from india. if you are hired from india and moved to US, LIFE IS BAD. there is nothing called work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management – focus on people management. management and sales are different areas, don't mingle them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Good learning and culture department

Cons – FSGBU which was perhaps one of the best places to work for as a small firm Kanbay, has seen an exponential decline in its culture, people and organization fundamentals. The senior management has no long term vision and most of them are around to simply make a quick buck and leave the organization. some major cons are - complete lack of respect for associates, low pay, lots of mergers with smaller companies but complete lack of integration of work cultures, fsgbu india treated as sweat shop, bureaucratic, pathetic support functions (hr, it, facilities)

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to respect your associates and address their concerns rather than wishing them away. You cannot effectively service clients and live up to your flawed motto people matter, results count unless you nurture talent.

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 more than a year

Pros – comp, project opportunities are numerous

Cons – culture, no investment in technology to support work, lean executive team and lack of attention to career, too much influence from France,

Advice to Senior Management – Need executives from other companies.

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 full-time for more than a year

Pros – Large company with some benefits

Cons – Long hours
Lower than industry pay
Management keeps changing direction
Health care benefits are expensive

Advice to Senior Management – Pick a direction and stay with it. Listen to your employees and back them up.

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 more than 10 years

Pros – Work-Life balance is generally good as there aren't a lot of "high-demand" periods.

Cons – Growth opportunities are very limited as you get higher in the pecking order (Sr. Mgr.).

Advice to Senior Management – Disband the AM group and roll the remaining resources into the Consulting business units...eliminare unnecessary redundant management personnel.

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 – Brand name recognized by the industry for its leading practices
Process Oriented
Good library of process and client case studies

Cons – No Scope for Individual Growth
Bureaucratic with top down format
Focused on billing client to enhance revenue and not on providing client value

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – -Good benefits, including those for domestics partners
-Fully inclusive EEO policy

Cons – -Extensive travel
-Difficult to achieve work/life balance
-Salary increases that come with promotions do not make up for the amount of additional work and responsibility that will be required with the new title.
-Only one type of career path; Up or Out. Does not have any career path for people that would like to just be an individual contributing SME.

Advice to Senior Management – -Performance Management process is tedious, overly time consuming and ineffective for when 65% of the resources will only get a 3 rating. Too much emphasis is placed on the need to "toot your own horn".
-Year End roundtable process is no longer objective and fair, and HR doesn't hold people accountable for it, but just turns a blind eye. People Managers have very little say or power in the process, yet are made to believe they do. Account team pre-calibration roundtables are what really drives the ratings and really invalidates the need for true BU/SL ones.
-The manadate to cut costs has been taken way too far, and has caused you to not supply resources with adequate tools; laptops are being kept for 7+ years, corporate cell phones come without email access and data plans for your resources who are traveling 100% but are below the sr. manager level.
-Too much time and money is spent on continually "re-organizing" the group internally. Selling off our healthcare practice back in 2003 to fund and internal re-organization is one of the worst decisions ever made.
-Resources are not valued for their true efforts and length of service with the company, but instead are considered to be easily expendable at any time.

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 full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work life balance
Good if you dont like challenges
Great opportunity to go abroad

Cons – Pathetic office politics
No challenges in life
Basically a dull work culture

Advice to Senior Management – Get oit of those petty excel sheets and do some real groud work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – It is a good learning experience as you will be working in a stressful work environment. Since many people do not like to take the stress, putting in extra effort may land you rewards.

Cons – There are many Cons to this company. Firstly, the HR is a lying, cheating bunch. Their first tactic with you is to promise you a raise or to correct your pay a few months after you join. This will never happen mind you. Your peers maybe getting paid much more or much less than you causing team rifts. The HR is not too supportive and will try to extract as much benefit for themselves as they can. Same is the culture with the management. All this is very visible in the first few months of working itself. Be careful while joining this ridiculous firm!

Advice to Senior Management – Strengthen the HR with people that lie less, have standards for compensation paabckages for a specific role/designation. It can create havoc in the team!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great to start career, Very good learning experience, Fun to work, flexible timings.

Cons – Literally Worst Compensation, Office politics has more scope than talent and hard work.

Advice to Senior Management – Please increase the compensation or you will loose the cream.

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