Capco is the biggest mis-sell its the PPI mis-sell of consultancies!. During the hiring process you will be told that you will be working with the best. In my two years here I’m still looking for the best. I have looked everywhere in the old office the new office, i even looked in Boldrocket...nothing.
Career progression is like being in a Masonic lodge secret handshakes and clique who seem to be excelling while everyone else sits and waits. No transparency at all on how and why people have been graded. There is a claim of a feedback culture which is a joke, feedback is an opinion based on someone’s perception and experience. However say how you feel it will quickly be turned round into your problem. For a company that claims to be disrupt they don’t seem to like being disrupted.
There is a talk of everyone being family..if that’s the case there is a lot of incest in this family! There is no support, very poor training from the get go.
The type of work you will be sold onto is PMO and managed services work. There is hardly any real or core consulting projects. The very few that are have been earmarked for the clique. You will not be told any of this before joining.
There is a huge demand for butts on seats so there is a huge drive to grow the firm. The recruitment is a joke. If you come via the ATP be prepared to have your potential career and entry via the first stages be talked about over beer. If you come in as an experienced hire be prepared to be interviewed by someone with less FS knowledge then you. Be prepared to be called a body shop by some of the more established client base.
Middle management here is amazingly poor. No people skills and no gravitas. You will see some people badmouth their peers and those they supposedly manage. Shout at staff in front of clients and take things very personally. If you are looking for professionalism you will not find it here. If you want cut corners then come! There also seems to be a lack of FS understanding. People have claimed the credit crisis was due to banks having poor data. All the articles i read and news channels claimed it was due to irresponsible lending...that right there shows the skill of people you could work with.
Your CV speaks volumes...if it has Capco on it will not get you very far. Nor will you learn anything other than how to lie. Go to the Big 4.
