Capgemini reviews

Project feedback and year-end review processes are out-of-date.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.

it's really a french company, not european. an european consulting company would derive the majority of its revenue from Germany, followed by Britain, then France etc, aligned with the sizes of the economies as well as the propensity of a country to engage consultants. Just look at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Booz, Accenture or any other consulting firm and you'll see what i mean. There's nothing wrong per se about this, just that if you are not french focused then your career path would be different.