Lost At Sea - Staff Consultant Capgemini Employee Review

2.0
Aug 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Bench time is nice - you can sit at home and not work but still collect a paycheck. If this is you, stay well hidden and you may get away with it for a few months. I did. Travel benefits are nice. If you know how to work it you could supplement your salary nicely.

Cons

It's very strange that Capgemini prides itself on technology yet no one at the company knows the latest and greatest stuff (like anything invented in the past 5 years). They focus too much on aging technologies like Oracle and Java. The senior management do not really look at you as a person, they look at you as a resource. Sometimes they just want to fill a seat with a warm body and milk billable hours out of the client, and don't really care about your career direction. Often the projects are scoped by people who have no clue about the subject matter, then the person who must complete the work is under the mercy of ignorant projections by some guy promoted so much he brings life to the Peter Principle. I honestly have no respect for the technical ability for any of my coworkers - they spend 90% of their day covering their own butts and doing work only 10% of the day. I know each account is different, but mine is awful when it comes to diversity. I'm the only white guy among a few hundred Indian guys who refuse to speak English in the office. The client speaks English, why not the consultants? If you have a fun project team you could have a great time, but sometimes it's just sweat shops and managers signing on for staff augmentations. I've often seen senior management skating thin ice when it comes to breaking serious employment laws, and I want no part of it.

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Cons

I was laid off after spending several months on the bench, with "lack of available projects" cited as the reason. However, another consultant in the same role who was also without an active client engagement was retained. As a woman and racial minority, I could not ignore the disparity in how these decisions appeared to be made. Before my termination, I reported being recorded without my consent and raised concerns about conduct that I believed reflected implicit bias. I was referred to as "URM" instead of by my name or role, encouraged toward race based employee resource groups rather than meaningful career opportunities, and repeatedly advocated for fair project placement while on the bench. My employment ended shortly after I raised these concerns. Following my termination, I pursued the matter through the appropriate internal and legal channels. I provided documentation supporting my concerns and gave the company multiple opportunities to investigate and resolve the issues. Rather than meaningfully addressing the evidence or acknowledging the seriousness of the allegations, the company denied wrongdoing, offered what I viewed as a nominal severance, and declined to accept accountability. Employees deserve confidence that concerns about discrimination and retaliation will be investigated objectively and fairly. My experience left me with the opposite impression.

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