Capgemini reviews

Capgemini was very political and it was more who you know and not what you know. The middle management seemed to want to protect their positions which is not unusual in large consultancies. If you want to do pure consulting work then this is a good place to work, but given their reliance on the HMRC contract, they are not aggressive in bidding for new large work and recently have been bidding as subs and not primes.

Project feedback and year-end review processes are out-of-date. Even if you are performing above and beyond expectations, at a much higher level, you are still required to have "N" years of experience and actively lobby with senior management in order to get promoted. Quality of projects and management is hit or miss. Some projects are very hush-hush, on the need to know basis, managed top-down, sometimes micromanaged. Company is pretty fragmented internally; it is very tough to move around divisions and people will hold that against you. International travel is rare, mostly due to costs and US being a stand-alone unit. Developers have little voice over how things are done and usually are pretty frustrated with the development approach and tools, which can usually be explained by limitations that clients impose on software vendors and technologies (IBM, Oracle, etc). At the same time, management has succumbed to "in the future all dev work will be done in India" fallacy; therefore, there is constant pressure for consultants to get away from software development.