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.
