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Beginner Friendly, Senior Hell

PLM Solution Architect
Former Employee
Worked at Capgemini for less than 1 year
March 16, 2018
Toulouse, Occitanie
1.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Overall, interesting for beginners (entry salary, projects with possible exposure to customers). Multicultural enterprise. Nice facilities. Not much more to say on the bright side, unfortunately.

Cons

Newcomers are left to themselves with usual e-learning stuff, waiting for a project assignment. Sometimes they wait for an assignment for months. When the project is there, there is little training, and they are thrown to the customer's premises.

Employee rating system is as follows: 1 = outstanding, to 5 = bye bye.

As a senior, you excel or you quit. Anyone doing their job very well would normally get only an average (3 out of 5). At the first little cloud, you get a 4, which is obviously below average. This company is not senior friendly.

Engagement managers are rewarded to stress any defect they can find in order to legitimate a below-average mark. This is confirmed by some friendly managers (those who did not succeed).

A word on the values: The more you stress the values, the less you really mean them.

And as values, you also had: "People matter, results count." Understand: Results count over people.

Advice to Management

Now advice is no longer free, and they would care. Never mind.

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