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Capgemini approach: hire a lion, give no food. The lion dies of starvation. Hire, make him sit, pay him alms

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Capgemini for 1 year
December 21, 2014
Mumbai, Maharashtra
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

This can be a research project of great prospect. The three months I've spent here, and in the days to come, I don't expect anything good from this company.

Cons

Oh, I could go on for days.

Right from stinking washrooms to tasteless food.

But the ones that astonished me were:

  1. They have no place to accommodate those people already working for them, and still, they hire people every week.
  2. They are very clear with their policy that they will not provide you with a computer.
  3. They pay you 7% less than other top-notch IT service companies like Infosys, TCS.
  4. Absolutely no entertainment for you at the office. The only "entertainment" is a miniature lawn with half of its green receding away.
  5. Training provided to fresher software engineers is well below par. They cannot even accommodate every batch inside their own office premises.
  6. Getting tagged to a project after training happens really fast, but only God knows when work will start.
  7. Top management is worthless; middle management is even worse.
  8. There are always more people sitting inside the library than there are books or computers.
  9. The learning curve is poor.
  10. They require every fresher to sit for a silly certification exam, the fees for which are borne by the examinee and are reimbursed through a lengthy, bottlenecked process if you pass the certification.

And the list goes on.....

Advice to Management

First things first, cut down your salary a bit and pay others according to market rates elsewhere.

Secondly, please have a gymnasium or an indoor sports club with enough infrastructure so that it isn't a mess, as the office is now.

Thirdly, provide everybody with a desk and a PC so that the office starts looking more like one.

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