Pros
I got paid. That's the only positive. Capgemini has gone out of their way to ensure I get nothing else out of working here.
Cons
- Raises don't happen and, when they do, you get absolute pennies. I had to fight tooth and nail to get anything at all after two years here and I'm pretty sure that the new hires are getting paid more than me at this point. - The company tagline/slogan (get the future you want) applies literally only to clients and people that have been with the company for decades. Skillsets are completely disregarded for project staffing. If you're new, you'll get put onto assignments that are entirely disconnected from what you've done in the past or want to do in the future, and any requests to change that are blatantly ignored. As a result, any actual career development or skill growth has to be done on your own time. - Despite what they say, complaints are seemingly distinctly unwelcome. Any criticism of the company or its practices, from the expectations of long working hours or sub-par pay or delayed promotions or poor staffing practices or literally anything else, is met with "that's just how consulting is" without fail without any consideration of the actual problem. - They'll make specific certifications (Amazon Web Services, for example) mandatory and claim that they're super in-demand despite there being no assignment opportunities that actually use those certifications. Despite AWS skills supposedly being one of the most in-demand things imaginable according to management, I have yet to see a project listing anywhere in the company that actually lists it as a hard requirement, let alone get staffed to a project that uses it. - Expected to be in-office regardless of actual job function, preference, or team location. The Nashville office is exclusively an open-office design, so there's a lot of people in not a lot of space with nothing to reduce sound, so everyone gets to hear everyone else's meetings, which are of course remote through Microsoft Teams because at least half of any team is in India and the other half is scattered across the US.
