Capgemini

• Pay is decent.
• Received a 13% raise in 2022 (beginning of year and mid-year).
• Open to fully remote, depending on the client.
• Client was a pleasure to work with.
• Great work-life balance, depending on the client.

Managers seemed overstretched and disconnected. My first line manager generally took a week to reply to messages, would send one thing, then not reply again. My second line manager I didn't meet for a year.

Capgemini systems were pretty poor, namely the timesheet system, which frequently led to problems that were never addressed.

Points of contact for certain issues are very hazy.

Once on a team, the only way off is if the project ends or if contract disputes happen behind the scenes. It's very hard to gain the bargaining power needed to move to different market units and be exposed to different forms of work. I was on the same team for my entire time with them and frequently expressed interest to move around and gain experience beyond the scope of a pretty easy team to please, but was ghosted more often than not because they didn't have a good reason to move me beyond my career aspirations.

Consider the fact that employees will work better when they are doing work which contributes to their own aspirations. Managers tended to claim they understood this, but I never got the feeling they actually did.

In general, the business works well and, overall, the pros outweigh the cons, despite the word length of the above.