Capco

Management accountability and senior leadership communication may be inconsistent. Workload and hours can spike depending on client projects. Project allocation sometimes slow; bench time and lack of long-term projects reported.

Problematic leadership, and a lack of strategy

Although consultants are not responsible for securing projects, and new project is typically brought in by partners, consultants are still held accountable for not being billable. This directly impacts their promotions and bonuses, and can even result in layoffs. You are not only working on the client’s projects but also you have to work on RFPs, POCs … after hours or during weekends. Capco used to be very great and performing phenomenal. Not anymore …

- Inconsistent leadership quality: emotional instability and reactive behaviour from some leads does not reflect the standards expected in a professional consultancy. - Minimal bonuses; limited financial recognition for impactful work. - Advancement often tied more to self-promotion and internal networking than to performance or delivery quality. - Quiet high performers can be overlooked while visibility and politics are rewarded disproportionately.

- Well being of the employee completely ignored: client at all cost! You could be a willing and hard working consultant, your interest will never prime. You could give it all until it impacts your physical and mental health, but would get nothing in return (career and interests wise). I have never seen so many burnouts and sick leaves across all the companies I was in my career. - They will not put you in mission where you do not have an expertise. Hence, if you do not already have various skills and knowledge, they will most likely trap you into a mission, just to bill, even if you do not like it and it does not fit you. - Linked to the above: very hard to learn new knowledge. If intellectual curiosity is what you seek, look elsewhere. - Management/HR with unappropriate behavior (strongly related to the above-mentioned points).

Some days you felt like you were on an island with no feedback

Can be long hours certain days

Honestamente não vejo contras. A Capco vem crescendo e evoluindo, melhorando seus processos e estrutura.

Appraisal is less for the subsequent years.

you always fight for personal exposure and next project to land instead of your vertical’s leadership planning out for you because you don’t have a clear and fix team