Vantaggi
Experience: your experince at Capco, much like life (or college/university), is all about what you do with it. If you want to get in on coaching, you need to ask to get involved. If you want to build a practice inside the company, you have to take charge. If you want to do sales, you have to fight for it. If you want to have a background role, you can also fall into that. You have to make your own waves here or else you will fade into the background. Work/Life: There is a balance but you do have to be vocal in express that with your peers and partners. It varies from project to project, and partner to partner, but all in all everyone at Capco recoginizes that there is more to life than work Enviornment: Unlike most consulting companies this is a more relaxed fun environment. People are friendly and helpful. The office has an upbeat sense with drinks, events, etc.
Svantaggi
Salaries: are higher than industry equivalent jobs but lower than consultant jobs as a whole Promotion: you have to be visible in the company. If you do not know how to network or market yourself, growth will be difficult. And to some extent you are at the mercy of your "coach" who has to vouch for you - if they are weak, your promotion is seen as weak. Responsibilities - around 40-60% of projects are truly staff augmentation roles. i.e. PMing a project for a client, Business analyst for a client, etc Benefits : are on the 'lower' side compared to other firms and their own clients. This is an area of improvement for sure. The package with Great west life leaves little room. Development : This is by far the biggest challenge for Capco, and many consulting firms. Capco just throws you into a project with no training - including Capco style of execution, templates to use, etc. There is a real Gap (opportunity within Capco to standardize the practice and information within Capco. Many have tried but it does not seem to be a high mandate at the Partner table. There needs to be an official function responsible for this in an org of over 500 people in Toronto