Capgemini FAQ

Pros

- Great work/life balance - Plenty of opportunities to train (and claim expenses back) - Some genuinely great, talented people - Plenty of opportunities to move roles, gain new experience and exposure to different areas, whether it be engineering, architecture, project management, or business analysis. - Great new office, with free drinks, and table tennis/table football.

Cons

- Assesses employee remuneration against so-called 'median' for each grade rather than against industry average, without taking into consideration individual skills/knowledge/experience. - Some teams operate within a dog eat dog culture - the louder you are generally results in more opportunities, reward and recognition. - Modesty - one of the key Capgemini values - generally not adhered to, in my 10+ years with the company I saw many many people get promoted and rewarded simply because of how much credit they took for other, quieter peoples work, as well as by standing up, doing presentations about subjects they knew very little about. One person in particular as an example received multiple promotions after singing their own praises at every opportunity offering very little substance or real benefit to the work or client they were doing. - For a business that is hot on their people initiatives, culture, diversity and equality, they do a very poor job of making male sex employees feel valued vs female counterparts. For example there was an annual celebration of International Womens Day, but no celebration of International Mens Day. - Kit not good enough meaning productivity sometimes takes a hit. I was once told to work on my personal MacBook because of how poorly my company laptop performed. Only to then be told 4 years later by the same person, (yes 4 years when my personal laptop was STILL more powerful than the garbage the business gave me) stop using your personal laptop or face disciplinary action! - Progression is slow for those where the face doesn't fit, or if you're unfortunate to work with people that are not like minded. - Usually this means picking up the slack for colleagues doing the same role, and sometimes they're on higher grades than you, that have been with British Steel > EDS > Capgemini (been TUPEd over the years), so the older colleagues on fantastic half a million £ pensions that are reluctant to embrace newer technologies and more progressive/efficient ways of working, and are just waiting to retire.

Advice to Management

I don't know what to say really, there are so many different managers at different levels that really have no power when it comes to remuneration. The only advice I can offer is to senior leadership that hold the purse strings, and that advice is with regard to the way in which Capgemini leadership dish out pay increases come the end of the year. The way in which medians per grade are calculated clearly needs a massive overhaul/rethink because the amount of talent the business lost in my final 18 months was quite honestly staggering to say the least. Some of the engineers I have had the pleasure of working with, and learning from in my 10+ years with the business are some of the best, brilliant minded engineers you will come across, and given the right attention to detail in assessing individual worth, especially in the marketplace, Capgemini would retain that talent. In my case in particular, I had over 10 years worth of experience working on one of Capgeminis biggest clients, so take into consideration that experience and knowledge, along with technical knowledge working on multiple platforms, and multiple cloud providers, with extensive knowledge of a lot of the older software used on the estate, as well as plenty of the newer DevOps practices and open source software, and I was offered a measly £4000 pay rise to stay, despite the business knowing I had been offered almost 5x more to move to a competitor. This clearly offers plenty of food for thought. Add to this that it was general consensus amongst those unsatisfied with pay, that leaving and then returning to Capgemini 12 months later normally achieved a hefty pay rise, goes some way to telling you how underpaid those that have started from the bottom are, go figure.

Pros

Stability, good medical and benefits, good pipeline of projects , all major banks

Cons

Low quality tech work, low cost outsourcing model, nothing really fancy about this company, this is not a management consultancy but a very large India based outsourcing and BPO firm. Expect no work life balance and be ready to work on some not so fulfilling projects if you value working on cutting edge technologies or projects

Advice to Management

None , won't change anything

Pros

- Really great environment for learning and growth. You will be supported in whatever certifications you want to go for, in fact it is encouraged. - There is major investment into their Junior talent as well, and any new graduates/apprentices joining feel welcomed and supported. - There is a push to get involved in company initiatives which is good to get people out of their shells and network, and it reinforces a sense of community within department and teams. - All in all, for learning and personal/professional growth, great culture. - Lots of diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Cons

The pay is a pittance! Not competitive at all! - Yearly pay reviews only increase your salary by £1k. What difference is £1k increase a year going to make?! That's not even keeping up with inflation, so really you're falling behind on salary every year. - with only £1k increase a year, within two years from a graduate salary (£30k) you'll be promoted to Lead Software Engineer, no doubt doing Lead Software Engineer work and responsibilities, but with only a salary of £32k. Pathetic! Absolute joke! - The benefits come in a 'flexible benefits' allowance of which most gets used up by pension and life assurance, and then whatever more benefits you choose come out of your salary. Not really benefits if you gotta pay for them. - Private health /dental is not even provided unless you choose it - other companies provide it as standard for ALL their employees. - Package is not competitive AT ALL for a software engineer in this industry. In fact, it's pathetic. You can come in demanding a good salary, but don't expect much of a raise year upon year.

Advice to Management

Revise your salaries for software engineers. Your rate is not competitive at all.

Pros

Good benefits, life insurance, travel cover etc.

Cons

Underpaid for the the amount of work

Pros

Pantry is decent, not great, but survivable. Colleagues are friendly.

Cons

Lack of diversity in the workplace, including upper management Annual leave is not in line with industry or general Singapore benchmark - 15 days of leave with upper management forcing you to take 40% of your annual leave for office closure, Salaries not in line with industry Minimal benefits - no welfare benefits, no mental wellness benefits Office space is small with limited facilities - lack of collaboration rooms, lack of meeting rooms, no external monitors Highly political environment - people pleasing the bosses instead of doing what is right for the customer and/or the company Lack of overall long-term strategy