Worst employment experience of my career - UX Designer Capgemini Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are basically no pros I can give to this employer. They try to keep good people, buy employee loyalty by giving them cheap and useless gifts... One may be lucky to be placed in a good client team, but then it's already another employer, not Capgemini... The only good thing was that I met a few great people and have those contacts now. For the rest, it is just not worth it.

Cons

Where to start?! First, I experienced very little professional development. I persoanlly felt my managers didn't provide a lot of inspiration and didn't facilitate skill development. Second, the salary package forced me to take a car as part of the remuneration. This was the biggest mistake I could have ever make. In the end, I paid much for using the car for a single year than I ever benefitted from it. And while the car was not bad, it was utterly NOT suited for driving in Brussels 9BE in general) and parking there. In the end, I paid 600 eur to the car fleet company for damages that were not even my fault.... Ludicrous! Third, the general consultancy environment doesn't make you feel as part of a team. You're neither fully working at CapGemini, nor t the client. I really struggled with this lack of belonging. As a result, I felt alone, without any support of the team. I stayed there only 1 year as I coulnd't take anymore that mental frustration and desperation. Fourth, culturally, I just didn't bond with locals. They had their own club there and non-Flemish people could hardly get in there. Also, I wasn't a fan of the general vibe. It just didn't have any vibe. Finally, the management and even young professionals that start working there - all feel like they've sold their souls for money. Their only goal is to get a more expensive, nicer car and bigger bonus at the end of the year. The place is built to celebrate and reward bullies and those who speak loud. For people that are more intravert and humble, that may not be the best environment. I took an enourmous mental hit and felt depressed and anxious all 12 months. So, my takeaway was - never work for a consultancy firm again, never agree to a car as part of the salary package and avoid overrated, arrogant and bad managers!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Honestly can't believe the audacity and entitlement of the middle management at this place. For example, last year everybody got about 3% merit raises (not at all keeping up with inflation but still something). This year, they were working with the same pool of funds to work with for raises, but made a "business decision" to consolidate the raises to only management. The rest of us got nothing. And the TOLD us they kept everything for themselves. And in addition to that, they twisted the knife by COMPLAINING to the whole department on a department call that their bonuses weren't enough. Just tone-deaf and careless mostly.

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