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What is it like to work at Capgemini in India?

Anonymous
2 upvotes by Sweta Shrivastava and Anonymous

Capgemini India is degrading day by day.

Once it used to be good company but now the company is focused only on revenue collection nothing else. Company
is acquiring mostly maintenance project where there is no life for the employees working. In those projects company
is not bothered of your actual skill and capability. You are only a resource that's it. No team outing no any kind of
remuneration like bonus, team outing etc.
The company is having tag line : "People matter, result count"
But this tag line is just like dead sea where the name of sea is 'dead see' but it had a quality that no one sinks in the
water because of its density.
Similarly here People doesn't matter , only revenue collection matter.
I have closely seen this company so there are many thing to speak, but i would only say that really this company is of
no worth in employee perspective. However only a few are lucky to get some better project in this organization.

There are full of ambiguity in capgemini policy:

1.

When a fresher is hired/ interviewed at 1 location and immediately asked to move to other city location no
relocation charge is provided.

2.

When fresher and experienced person gets release from project and based on requirement or availability of
project he/she is being asked to relocate to other city location then on that time mostly relocation charge is not
provided. And there is relocation policy document which if you follow then your new manager will black mail you
that if you will ask for relocation charge then he/ she will reject you to give that offer and employee cant do
anything in it, contacting with HR will never work.

3.

Capgemini is full of support project where you will find less or no scope of technical learning. They have
acquired those project only for revenue collection. In those support project you will not get motivated in anyway
neither work, work culture,pay, no team refreshment etc

4.

The immediate manager and manager of manager and manager your manager's manager(N+1 N+2 and
N+3) involves in your annual review / appraisal process. Managers receives clear instruction from management
to give good rating to very few people and give average to rest all and remaining receives bad rating who had
some conflict with manager/ political team member or who asked for release from the given project. N+2 and
N+3 generally has no intersection with employees and they even don't know the names of the employees but they
take part in review process where they decides appraisal based on your manager's review.

5.

In capgemini HR are just a representative but for no other use for the employees. The concept of business
unit HR is just fake and they follow the same what capgemini management decides and they will never help any
employee in their issue of harassment, project corruption or anything. In-fact HRs are helpless to do anything .

6.

There is a policy under which employees needs to get shift allowance. Shifts has been defined in the
document in range and it is stated in the document that what allowance an employee will get if he/she is required
to work in different shift other then normal business hour. The amount which has been mentioned in that policy
have not been changed from centuries . And in many projects managers or senior managers give instruction to
the employees not to apply for that allowance even if he/she is coming in different shift as asked to come. If an
employee presents that document to project management and reports to HR then employee digs his/her grave in
capgemini which badly affects during review/rating time.

7.

Company mainly focus on giving technical training to Campus-hired fresher but not to off campus hired
fresher. Reason is based on that training given to the Campus hired they decides the bond period for them where
they cant leave the organization until the period gets over or else they will require to pay a certain amount to org.
There is no bond condition on off campus fresher so they are not being provided any technical training. And all
together mostly they are deployed in non technical work where scope of gaining technical exp is nil or a very little
where they feel suffocated.

8.

The company is fully focused on their branding as we can see their advertisement / promotion through
posters, social medias etc where they boosts of they principle values which doesn't exists. And the tag like of
capgemini - "people matter, result count" is also one of that.

9.

There is a huge huge dis-connectivity between employees with capgemini management and project
management and capgemini internal management like HR and others. In which account / project what wrong is
going on with employees.

10.

I have interacted with a lot and lot of departments like HR, resourcing group of different business units,
marketing team, recruitment manager, recruiters, many of the service delivery managers etc and when I see the
capgemini India review in certain website where review has been given with over boosting about the company
then I feel as if certain group of people who look after marketing and advertisement make several fake accounts to
give better review of the company.

Capgemini

How do I grow professionally and personally in the Indian IT industry?

Deepak Mishra, Software Engineer

51 upvotes by Ankita Priyadarshini Nallana, Mathew Joy Maniyamkott, Hiranya Deka, Soumendra Kumar Sahoo, (more)

Thanks for A2A.

I can sense your disgust with people who enjoy mocking IT industry in India. Some have good reasons, some are just
born to complaint.

That's the first lesson - ignore most discussions in office. You will find plenty of such "intellectuals" willing to
argue on any topic, the question is how is that argument helpful to you and the society. They won't give solutions.
They won't provide an alternative. All they will do is give you negative energy. IT (and corporate) is full of such people
- learn to ignore them.
You need to be a jack of all trades. Be ready to do anything. Any technology, any domain. When I say "ready", I
don't mean "accept". You will be forced to take any domain/technology at work (which is my next point), but you
should be quick to evaluate what is good for your future.
Learn to fight. If you don't want to work on something or your ideas are not accepted, don't work. Escalate to the
highest of levels - no one will ever fire you. Your managers may hate you for bypassing them, but they cannot do
anything more. Maybe your next hike will be 4% and not 6%. Doesn't count in early stages of career.
Never under-estimate business. Most people portray themselves as just coders (who will avoid talking) or a
presentation guy (who will avoid coding). Learn to bridge the gap. You have to be an efficient communicator between
these two groups - coders should respect you more than the guys who just blabber. Business teams should feel
comfortable talking to you because you don't talk of weird coding problems and efficient algorithm to them.
Understand your client. Talk as much as possible with different people from the client team. None in your team
would want you to be exposed to the client, but let them hate you. But ensure you talk to understand their business
better. Discuss innovative ideas (you should follow trending groups for the domain you are in) and optimization
strategies (you can easily find modules to optimize in the load of legacy code most of the IT companies carry)
Be quick and dirty. Noone wants a perfect solution initially. And that's your chance to make an impression. Just
make it work. Once that's done, start "owning" the solution and enhance. If you are a good coder, you might not feel
happy doing this, but then you will have to continue working under some jerk who presents a stupid prototype before
your perfect code.
Always give emphasis on communication. In other words, if you are equally weak in both communication and
technology - work on communication first.
Be self-motivated. In a place where everyone is whining, you cannot depend on others to set career goals for you.
Most of the senior people have experience limited to similar IT companies and they don't know of a better world and
culture. So they will compel you to believe that there is no good outside, and you have to be in the same shit forever.
Spend more and more time in learning new skills. Don't depend on group studies (if you are used to those from
college).