Dependable roles but cliquey culture - Anonymous employee Capco Employee Review

3.0
Feb 3, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- No / limited travel for roles - Good exposure to main UK banks - Great for a graduate starting out to get exposure to large organisations - Good and helpful partners

Cons

- Dependent on being in the key groups at Capco to progress- if you no longer keep up with drinking and going out- hard to progress and hard to get good roles - Bonus entirely driven on work done outside of your (busy) day role

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Capco Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback on working at Capco – it’s great to hear of your positive experience of clients, projects and leadership at Capco. It’s disappointing to read about your perceptions of career progression and bonuses at Capco. As a point of fact, bonuses are not entirely driven by work done outside of your day job. The main driver of a person’s bonus is performance in their core role. We’re proud of the fact that we formally recognise and reward broader contributions to Capco (or as we call it, Community), but this has significantly less influence on bonus than ‘core’ performance. Similarly, strong performance in core role is a pre-requisite for career progression. We have a robust peer calibration process to assess performance and review promotion candidates, in order to ensure that decisions are based on merit and not how busy your Capco social life.

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