Capco Employee Reviews & Ratings

- promotion reviews - lack of remote work

Constant management change within the past few years

for busy projects, it can get very busy (mbb style busy without mbb style pay)

Finding a new project is always a stressful process if you don’t know the right people.

Roles at this firm at predominantly backfill based, or supplemental FTE's at client site. Guidance is minimal from management, almost as if everyone acknowledges the problems but no one willing to change them. Definitely a place where if you want to suck up you can make a career, but if you don't like the game and/or play by the rules you will not have a good time.

Glorified staffing firm, as a smaller firm they need to make money so they might put people on never ending projects

- more leave entitlement e.g. birthday's

Projects vary and it is hard to become an expert in a field, too much focus on subjective items that do not matter in the long run, nature of the work seems very basic - no real technical skills are absorbed

I have no criticism, an excellent company to work for.

Very limited client and you will.be put into garden leave of you are in bench

It's not easy to get promoted

Pays well below industry averages

Effort do get squeezed in a competitive environment and experience in Capco is hit and miss. It all depends on your line manager, client and luck.

Can be more staff Aug than typical consulting.

Be prepared to give 120% of you on deliveries

Self starter attitude is required to have success.

Promotion criteria constantly changing, becomes de-motivating

- Performance review system - Promotions

Project management is considered a side task in most cases. Training opportunities could be richer.

For support roles no much options to move to different departments.

Lack of growth and no projects

Can feel isolated, getting on an initial project may be difficult, company culture is lacking

Very limited opportunities to learn new skills and technologies, slow and unchallenging client environment, very little opportunity for hard work to translate into career progression/promotions

Communication can be improved within Management.

Less visibility of portfolio at client end

Service based, contract based hiring

too many changes happening currently

Much of the US-based company is staff aug at large firms.

no downsides of the company

Not much of cons to be honest

-Leadership (Partners & Managing Principals) focused on serving themselves rather than helping others to grow, develop and succeed. -Plenty of backstabbing by Managing Principals to get a shot at Partnership at the expense of others -No positive role models -Poor support for self development and promotion -Poor work life balance

Not a lot of promotional opportunity.

None I would say. Better than the big 4

Extensive need for community work

Nothing to mention as of now

As a consulting frim, Capco often deals with demanding clients and tight deadlines.

Difficult to move projects at times

Slow on promotion. Internal politics

Less hike, very less performance bonus

Compensation is on low side , promotion is not good . Ppl get low hike lower than industry.

Difficult to progress if you are only there to work Some client work very demanding and can mean you become isolated from Capco opportunities Performance review system is terrible Lags behind other bigger consultancies for salary and bonus compensation

Can't think of any at the moment

Approach to performance reviews and targets is strange. 40%+ of performance is allocated to non-core functions called community. They expect you to be billable full-time, but then find time (10+hrs a week) to do volunteer work as well as participate in auxiliary activities. Recruiting, whitepapers, etc. make sense. But it's left intentionally vague how much you need to do to meet targets. Also, the sales targets of top leaders are pushed down below them without allocation of any hiring authority, expense budget to meet potential clients, or time/training to do business development. Some amount of renewable business happens at existing clients, but not the at the level passed down. You can't sell extra people that don't exist if everyone is already placed and you don't have hiring authority or ability to market to the outside. Disconnect with those realities. Also, the company was pushing DEI and had woke type policy statements going out from HR. I didn't see it yielding unfair hiring or promotion practices, but I have seen that in other places with such a focus to where it was a red flag for me staying. They openly stated the mix of people what effectively too white. The company had plenty of female representation.

Due to demand and skill set, you may not match with your desired project.

First Project that is assigned to new hire is not of employee choice . it depends on whatever is available

I haven’t experienced any cons.

Bad culture and cliquey management

Redundancies put a spin on growth prospects

- Performance is broken down into 65% Core(skills, delivery, etc) 15% on Commercial(Client being billed) and 20% Community. TBH community should be 0%. Some people are able to do it during working hours but many opportunities are on the weekend. It seems like wage theft. The community portion should not be forced onto people. - Pay is 20-25% below market value and HR doesn't negotiate. Probably why a lot of people leave. There is a difference in wage depending on where you live, even in a remote position which does not make sense. - Very good leaders often leave and the bosses stay. It seems like something that needs to be addressed. - Sometimes you can be assigned to one job that does not align with your skill set.

Promotions are determined not only on your delivery capabilities for a client - though this is expected at most consultancies