Capgemini US Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Management Consulting, opportunities to work with fortune 100 companies, travel

Cons

Inability to switch between practices easily.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more training opportunity to Senior Consultants

Pros

Great entry level position and work/life balance.

Cons

Salary, disorganized trainings, unable to venture off into other sectors of Consulting, and benefits are not competitive.

Advice to Senior Management

Better pay and provide more clear/concise directions.

Pros

Good group of employees in the field
Work balance is good

Cons

Only concern is hitting sales numbers

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the politics and start listening to your employee concerns and then act on the concerns

Pros

-Good Sr leadership
-Well defined capabilities and expertise

Cons

-Only look at consulting work with less focus on downstream work

Pros

Variety of innovative projects to work on. Smart people to work with.

Cons

Travel up to 4 days a week for many months at a time.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide a clearer picture of where the NA operations are going.

Pros

strong global brand big firm
strong culture
great people

Cons

limited career development support
limited communication
limited support to fulfilling of KPIs

Advice to Senior Management

communicate more

Pros

people are great except for the leadership. They pay well. It can be alot of fun.

Cons

The biggest underachieving company in the industry. Sr management is out to make as much money for themselves as they can even if it means cutting people that have given years of their lives working here, and foregoing vacations.

Advice to Senior Management

Start looking at the people aspects and less at your W-2

Pros

friendly place, can take lead and grow, work real hard and get growth, get to travel a lot if in consulting. sometimes frustrating.

Cons

limited visibility across other teams / projects, haphazard decision making, short sighted views and decisions of mgmt, lots of travel or client locations since its consulting.

Advice to Senior Management

should listen to employees, should have a hr team who cares for employees, should offer more time off and trainings.

Pros

Capgemini provide great learning opportunities across variety of areas. It operates across a wide range of consulting topics starting on the strategic consulting of the continuum to the tactical system implementation and operational outsourcing aspects

Cons

Heavy technology impact. Does not have clear go to market offerings and hence does not have a strategic insight into the type of competencies they want to develop and hence many time operate as an ad-hoc body shopping

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on identifying key competencies and a development plan. The competencies should not be limited to soft skills but based on the offerings.

Pros

Exposure. Types of projects. Meet people and opportunity to pitch to clients.

Cons

Have to a be pet of a 'somebody' to see even see a good opporunity your way.
Never get the due or credit even when your performance in 110%.
Lot of favoritism. Some managers do not even consider you if you are not from a certain geographical part of the country.
Family is never a priority. If you are asked to go to alaska you would have to, if not you are fired. No respect and taken for granted a lot.
You would have to be 'somebody's' female dog to get ahead.

Advice to Senior Management

Show certain respect and not favour guys from your area. Sometimes that means a senior guy would end up reporting a junior guy. Dont put people in a position so that they are certain to fail. We are in a 'people' business so you better have the right people. Scrutinize more and dont puch blame.