Trending @Capgemini; What do you think about the ongoing bench problem in CapG?
Makes me very concerned. 🫣 The bench is very bloated right now.
The problem is that CapG is matching today's hiring to tomorrow's demand, to get your talent pyramid right. Typically, your scarcest resource in any sort of high-demand period is competent, experienced project managers, of approximately 3 years tenure. So recruiting targets should be about predicting demand 3 years out.
They also distribute the vast majority of their profits to current Heads in the year they are made, or right after, retaining little within the firm. Heads actually have attrition levels similar from juniors(around 3 years), due to lifestyle, outside offers, and political infighting combined with personal ambition.
So they are incentivized to make headcount and recruiting decisions based on current demand because they don't care about staying for longer at the firm. This is a mismatch.
What do you think? I am literally sleepless at night with anxiety about getting laid off and it is affecting my health now.
Honestly, I've come to terms with the fact that Capgemini isn't exactly known for being employee-friendly. Whether I'm moved back to the bench from my current project, put on a performance improvement plan, or even laid off, it doesn't faze me anymore. Being with Capgemini has left me with virtually no work-life balance. Instead of supporting their experienced employees, they seem more inclined to shuffle them back to the bench. We put in a lot of hard work to complete tasks and tickets, which naturally leads us to expect better compensation. However, it seems like they'd rather let us go and hire new people who aren't familiar with the work.
My dept./domain is not allowing transfer or domain change even after getting project opportunities from other BU and domains. We are on bench now almost 1yr.
On bench for 1 year is also happening at consultant or senior consultant level, how much yoe do you have?
