Capgemini reviews

- Weak leadership team, the impact flows down to the base of the pyramid where lower tier employees are struggling to be inspired by a vision or a strategic direction. - Lack of professionalism in middle management (director level) whereby leaders at that level make judgement on people they've never met and spread rumors. That's unlikely to inspire anyone to trust or follow such leaders. - Salaries are ridiculously low. If you were getting experience working interesting engagements and learning with , you would look the other way, but when you're not getting inspired, working insane hours, and having to network like a social butterfly and you're still getting paid poorly (way below industry average), it becomes an issue. - big fans of 'resource augmentation', where you're left to struggle to make something out your time at the client (if you're going to be compared to a contractor, you might as well get paid like one... if you know what I mean)

1. Leadership - It is non existent. In place of leaders, they have administrators that administer clients, people and results via spreadsheets. 2. Culture - It is schizophrenic . For a firm that asserts the "collaboration, freedom, trust and honesty..." are cornerstones of its organisational culture, it acts in direct contradiction to these values. Leaders and employees do not collaborate but continuously undermine each other to "own" relationships and outcomes for individual gain. Staff have no freedom to express their opinions because there is no 360 degree performance management, cliques exist from the top down and challenging decisions results in detrimental feedback. Interactions from the top down are characterised by an implicit distrust in individual agendas or ability to deliver. And the organisation as a whole is incapable of being honest with itself in terms of its capability, its competitive standing and what it brings to clients. The general culture is characterised by cynicism, apathy and game playing. 3. Priorities - Leadership are unable to articulate a vision or priorities in a way that connects with any human being. Priorities are expressed (almost exclusively) in financial terms, with no clear vision, plan for execution or understanding of tradeoffs. 4. KPIs - KPIs are cryptic, unrealistic and ineffective breeding institutional game playing, cultural fragmentation and devisive behaviours. 5. People Management - There is no clear career path for consultants beyond being placed on whatever opportunity is available at any given time, resulting in sub-standard outcomes for both clients, consultants and their careers. Drive and ambition is discouraged, while complacency and time in grade is rewarded. 6. Ethics - Senior management decisions around resourcing, customer engagement and performance management are often unethical. Too many examples to air... 7. Remuneration - Remuneration and reward systems are opaque, subjective and grossly uncompetitive. Most consultants are being offered significantly more from the clients they serve for less responsibility. The secretive pay scales have never been indexed (to my knowledge) nor have charge out rates. 8. Expertise - There is little to no investment in building or harvesting expertise. Any expertise that is hired is rapidly diluted by shoving 'square pegs in round holes'. Basis for competing is purely on price because of lack of expertise. 9. Sales Bloat - There are far too many sales people that have a complete lack of understanding of consulting, our client's needs and what it takes to deliver, resulting in either troubled projects or employee burnout.