Capgemini Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time

Pros – Good Ethics and work culture.

Cons – Not project at pipeline. Politics there.

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 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

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

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

Pros – Salary and benefits are competitive. Admin support staff is nice and friendly if you take the time to get to know them. Fun environment with a lot of happy hours.

Cons – Your interests and career goals are not taken into consideration when taking on new projects. You are staffed based upon which manager gets their hand in there first. Employees grossly underutilized at the lower levels.

Advice to Senior Management – Value the lower levels and the admin support staff more, and show your appreciation for them better. They will return the appreciation by working harder for you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great flexibility that allows you to put in what you want. A relaxed culture where taking initiative can take you places.

Cons – Not a lot of guidance for recent college grads. Training programs are lacking, and Capgemini does not try to ensure you get a wide variety of experience - something that is absolutely critical during your first few years.

Advice to Senior Management – Providing more opportunities for college hires will lessen attrition. Compensation is not very competitive at least at the junior levels which results in a certain variety of employees.

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 10 years

Pros – Immediate managers listen to people.

Cons – Work Quality needs some improvement.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't just think of short term profits, think about long term growth and investments in the company.

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

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time

Pros – Entreprenurial Approach
Good client base
Growth in D&I space
Recruiting at the college level

Cons – Training hard to get
Line leadership not in touch with day to day needs
Geo resource alignment model not condusive to national selling model

Advice to Senior Management – Train your people
Do away with internal pricing politics
Get rid of VP's not acting in right/ethical way

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

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

Current Employee – been working at Capgemini full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – not the standard it job - you get to wear different hats and you can make your work as challenging or easy as you want it to be. Of course - performance reviews will look at how many challenges you took on in addition to your regular role.salary seems ok compared to other regular IT firms, but may be on the lower end when compared to other consulting companies.

Cons – Depends on a few big clients. Need additional training programs and more involved on boarding process. You feel totally lost the first 1 or 2 months if you are new to consulting. work life balance is hard to maintain depending on client.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more approachable and open.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Capgemini full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – made numerous profesional connections, was exposed to a wide variety of businesses

Cons – During interview was promised no more than 6 months travel per year, actual travel was 100%. Getting good assignments and promotions was not based on merit, only on ability to befriend the right people. This led to inexperienced/unqualified people in management positions who would steal ideas or place false blame on others to inflate their own importance.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow employees to review their superiors. Do not lie about travel requirements during interview process

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend