Extremely cliquey and highly political - Avis employé Senior Consultant Capgemini Invent

Where do I even start? People management doesn’t exist. Consultants are made people managers without adequate training, and as a result are extremely unsupportive but more interested in gossiping. Promotions are a joke, it’s seriously about who you know, they disregard all the hard work you have done and promote people who are lazy and have been stuck on public sector projects for years. Then graduates get automatic promotion and become the same level as you. How does that make sense? If you have 3+ years experience you clearly are not on the same level as a graduate. Grading system is just awful. Senior directors and VPs put you in roles which you may not have any domain knowledge in; and tell you to lie on your internal CV to get onto projects. Consultants are not protected if client is super difficult and bullying. Big focus on sales sales sales, if I wanted to be in sales I’d have become a business development manager. Cap have a poor client base which is 70% public sector. Just not a very nice environment if you want to work hard and excel. If you do nothing and are extremely friendly with the senior director then you can possibly fly through the ranks. Half the consultants in the company lack any true industry experience. Disappointed as Capgemini Invent did have potential.