Capco Employee Reviews & Ratings

Employee turnover. Need to know right people to get on to high profile projects

Short deadlines on a regular basis

they don’t care about their people like they claim

I only worked at Capco for about 6 months, and it was mostly a negative experience for me. The work environment is cutthroat, and values suck up to management more than integrity and quality. Leadership was absolutely horrible and lacked the qualities required to build a good workplace culture. You will be successful if you are white, an extrovert, and build relationships with the right people, and can talk a good game. The politics and the preference for being fake nice vs. authentic and candid are suffocating. I would highly recommend not to entertain the idea of working with this company.

This firm used to promote a 'CATO Family' ethos - things drastically changed. You're expected to contribute not just with your client work but internal activities that are classed as 'Community work'. If you don't contribute enough then you're penalized in a strange performance review process where a 'coach' has to fight your corner for a rating. Bad coach? Tough, you'll just get a lower rating when everyone pitches. Too many 'seniors' who talk the talk and love to micro manage. If you're with one of these on a project you better hope it's a short engagement. Lay offs are rife here, being laid off isn't a issue as in the industry it can happen. But how this firm handles this is a horrible experience when everyone works so hard and contributes. You're pulled into a call unexpectedly told you're getting laid off, the call ends and within 30 mins you're access to everything is revoked. Don't expect time to say goodbye and no thank you for the hard work.

Unfortunately, not that mature like expected Really high churn rate

None as of now. You shape your career here

It is very much project dependent

Small consulting firm and shows in their approach.

Community work is to much

bad for beginners, nothing to learn new techs

No cons to share so far.

Pay is not enough for tasks you will be asked to do.

I don't have any cons, Capco has been a great company to work for.

- Work can be quite repetitive

Some projects are interesting. Others are brutally mundane. Impossible to get off of a project you don't want to be on.

Promotion eligibility can be cumbersome

- Diversity could be improved slightly - More opportunities to meet as a domain would be appreciated - Bonus range was different than discussed in the recruitment process

Interns have no work to do

Capco's culture and pace can certainly feel a bit daunting for those who aren't as extroverted or outspoken, or who need more time to prepare and process. The nimble, "it-is-what-you-make-it" gray areas of the firm can be confusing, and there's also more we could do to invest in learning opportunities for our people. And as with most roles and firms, there's more work to do than time.

Hikes are less since it's now a typical IT firm.

Political. Due to parent company Wipro there have been positive and challenging changes

No visibility in upper management

Pretty boring project, but for sure this is something you can change while working for them

Didn’t come across one yet

Low money is paid as compared to industry standards

Sometimes work life is tough

Management is very fragile and going down in quality

Typical consulting company, be ready to play the game

The management of Capco is overly cautious. It failed to chase the growth needed to develop the brand and employees career paths. As a result, most employees were frustrated, stressed, angry, and unsure about their future. It was ridiculous. If you plan to join here, my first piece of advice would be to avoid it. If you can't skip it, make sure that you get noticed by the management to win some favors. It might help you stick here for long and skip the exhausting, brutal hours the others were putting in. Don't make any real friends, and everyone is just fake. BEWARE!

Favouritism with promo cycles .

Some processes still catching up with the recent growth of the business

Slow process in the interviews

- If you’re not on a contract role and on the bench for over 4 months you are considered as being at risk. Unfortunately if you’re not billing, the company will see no use for you. - There is no transparency or direction for roles available presently or in the future. They have a portal where you can apply for roles but when you’re a UX designer these specialist role’s don’t get listed often. - You hear rhetorics about how we’re doing well and we having nothing to worry about. But when you see people departing regularly, you have to start questioning things. In the past month or 2 around 6 people supposedly left the team. - People higher up who are well connected and part of the leadership team are safe. - They use the pretence of doing work on the bench to test you out and let you go if you make minor faults. They will find any excuse.

Promotion cycles can be political

Expect to be assigned to a project you don't know anything about

You can get put on a bad project with little control and have no hope of getting off it within a year or so. Management don't reward good work very well

None I can think of at the moment.

You can achieve top performance scores across all categories and won’t achieve a salary increase or more than 7% bonus Lack of opportunity to specialise- you’ll be put in any open role, regardless of preference

I cant think of any cons at present.

too much dependency on client

Claim the organisation is a meritocracy but who you know is actually what gets you promoted Recent layoffs as the resourcing team aren't able to acquire the amount of projects needed to fulfil the hiring boom the organisation went through a couple of years ago Most projects are focused on resource augmentation rather than organisations needed specialists for support

Management: If you work in Corporate services you will find huge discontent over miss-management and the way each department is run. Extremely poor Management decisions and leadership. Key decisions are made on a whim and poorly conceived. There is little trust or understanding for how particular departments work or what they contribute to the company. The Messiah and the SLt are truly pathetic, the disconnection between them and the rest of the company is apparent throughout. Their egos are off the scale. Money is the only game here and they will do anything to get it! It ends up posing a great risk to all of their employees/clients. Arrogance is at its max! SLT are placed in charge of initiatives or departments without having any expertise in that particular field. The good ones are pushed out by the messiah New management = New disaster. Every time capco sells up (3 times in 6 years) it gets worse! The SLT can't help but feed their greed. Capco has grown too quickly over a short period of time so you now have Department Heads suitable for a smaller company running these large teams. They have no expertise/experience of how to organise a large corporate department. On a weekly basis there are some big errors happening. New initiatives are launched all the time and fail because of miss management or again ill conceived ideas. They push them in your faces but no-one takes notice. Staff Turnover: Being a consultancy you would expect a high turnover of staff. Throughout Capco there is a huge amount of staff leaving & starting. Again the majority leaving is due to bad management. Extremely good employees have been either pushed out or jumped ship due to the way their department is managed. We are talking thousands in the last 5 years!...not a few....One day they're here, the next gone. If you're thinking of joining, make sure you do your research. Definitely avoid corporate services. Consultants; They're not all like this but majority are over hyped, arrogant people. Of course they think they can solve every problem. There's definitely no common sense there. This leads to a lack of understanding and conviction to get things done. Roundtables (employee reviews): The bi-annual review system at Capco is unbelievably biased and wastes a lot of people's time/resources (If you can work out how it all works!!). They've over complicated it (as consultants do) and keep on adding more complications! It's typical of who you know, not what you know here. If they don't like you, you'll definitely get marked down regardless of how well you have performed. Social Media: Don't be fooled by the good reviews on glassdoor or other social media accounts. These are for different regions, not the UK. And most probably by Consultants who are oblivious to what actually goes on behind the scenes. Company Events; Please stop wasting huge amounts of money on these horrendous company events. The 20th & 25th Anniversary was a complete disaster. If you saw what happened behind the scenes it would make you cringe.

there should be proper work allocation

Absolutely incompetent colleagues with no proper grammar or spelling Colleagues who couldn't use basic MS Office functions yet expected the world out of you Unrealistic timeline in which to do work 0 input from Capco manager On the bench for a couple months and suddenly shoved out the door one day with no warning, real reasoning, explanation or even a PIP Pay was below my experience level but I took it after agreeing on higher and turning down other opportunities only to be done over by capco Overall I'd rather be castrated before working here again

Long term based at a static client site

I have nothing significant to say.

Salaries can be a bit better

Leadership/management allowed for toxic culture

- Salary progression - Project varieties