Q&A With Capgemini Employees

very poor you are forced to work 24x7

Like any consulting company it can be difficult. You have to be willing to set your own boundaries.

A suit and tie if male or similarly appropriate attire if female.

I would wear a conservative dress in black or blue dress if you’re a woman or black/blue dress pants and shirt and tie for a man. A suit if you are interviewing for a senior level position

For North America, suit, tie and polished shoes or as a minimu, Blue sport coat, white shirt with modest tie - paisley or regemental stripe, tan chinos and polished shoes. Be well groomed, no wrinkles and well trimmed.

Human, generally. Other than that your mileage may vary. 300,000+ employees makes that a difficult question to answer.

Very helpful, friendly, co-operating, supportive

I adore working with most of them. Helpful, open minded, kind and sincere. One thing I don't like about them, and it has more to do with them as a group than as individuals is, they're trying to show the servant-kind and low-cost-employee-kind of nature, without displaying much self esteem or self value.

Up to the interviewer and varies by department. The company has 300,000+ employees and tens of thousands of managers performing interviews. Their are no set questions.

This really depends on the candidate's experience. Students get a bunch of detailed technical question, similar to these they'd get asked during exams. The more exp you have the more the questions tend to test your way of thinking and solving problems.

Depends on position, experience and location. The more years of exp you have, the lower chance anyone will ask you any (I really mean ANY) technical questions.

merit based raises only requiring documentation of vale add and meting of set requirements

Once a year, but it's not for everyone. Great feedback but earning more than some other employees? No raise. Less than perfect feedback? No raise.

Dedicated people with solid work ethic, good technical skills, good people skills, a professional attitude, and an eagerness to learn and develop

Depends on what you mean by succeeding. Some managers say you have to take part in community meetings (which is basically spending your free- or family time at work), others will tell you you need to show some serious management skills to even be considered a team leader. They actually want you do do your job, only faster. Succeeding is not among anyone's interests.

could be better

It's usually one way: you will receive feedback from your managers but won't be given a chance to give feedback o managers. Negative feedback seems to be valued higher than positive and may always get in the way if your rise is concerned.

It can be exhausting at times, but I legitimately enjoy my work .

This may depend on the project you're working for. From excited to want to quit job immediately.

If your not careful to make sure to work on maintaining a healthy work / life balance

If you have a way to recharge your batteries after a busy day at work your social life should be fine.

get an itil certificate and have BMC Remedy or ServiceNow experience .

Do java.

a fair amount

This depends on location. The more software engineers in the location, the more geeks and bikers. When it comes to ethnicity it also varies with locations.

it waxes and wanes depending on workload

Although the engineers are constantly faced with more work to do or less pleasant tasks or closer deadlines, the morale is high due to the people's friendliness.

no increment in salary

There's something that may be considered a unique perk or benefit: the company offers traing for people who don't know how to write software and then they hire them as software engineers.

not so much educated

Not my level, really. I don't have the chance to hear from the CEO very often (not even once a month).

This really depends on the projects you get to work with.

You can work in home office from time to time. That's usually as remote as you can make your position.

This may vary with the location and department. Once a year around 2% individuals [where I work] who receiced remarkably positive feedback can be promoted. It can happen that the feedback one receives has a less than sincere background. After all who wants to pay more for having the same amount of work gotten done?

Promotions don't happen very often. Once a year, the bosses gather and rank their subordinates. 2-5% of people get promoted each year. Mostly, from the lowest grade to the just a bit higher grade.

You usually get your vacation as planned, but you usually have to plan half a year or at least one quarter ahead. One or two days off aside the plan can be taken from time to time as well.

Depending on the project you're working for, you usually are asked to plan ahead and then, what you planned is guaranteed. That's pretty cool.

Manager

Understand flow of management

Bonuses

Base salary

Need more support personnel during project implementation

Great people

Collaboration vertically and horizontally

Support structure

Network building

5-8 years