What is overtime like at Capco?

Motivated and professional team High-quality IT equipment and office standard Fair pay

Work-life balance is not ideal due to overtime and round-the-clock availability

Opportunities: From both community projects and main project work, you'll have the opportunity to work towards bunch of different tools/tech/certs. They'll support learning opportunities, but it will need to immediately help the business. People: Really nice people and a lot of them are very committed and hard working. WLB: While not great, I put it in pro because they are aware that the WLB is not great, but they have measures in place to try and limit lots of overtime.

Senior Management: MP's, Directors, and most Partners are great. It appears they have replaced the Co-CEO's which is great, but prior they brought on Co-CEO's who had some of the worst corporate communication delivery regarding RTO message. In an all-hands meeting, one of the Co-CEO's kept mentioning how "great looking our executive team is", directing his comments towards a female representative - this made the meeting incredibly uncomfortable. The market has also been struggling and going through layoffs, and when a question was asked if additional layoffs were to be expected, they answered "we have to keep our bench clean" - there was no direct/head-on or straightforward answer that a leader should provide. One of the major reasons I decided to leave. Pay: Pay is good, but much lower than most competitors, and it's a similar workload. Culture: Not that different from consulting orgs either; practices of hiring/firing/letting are arguably worse here, between layoffs and the alarmingly high level of furloughs. Growth: Incredibly difficult to get promoted. The framework is very clear, but even when an employee outperforms the framework, they are not performed. Lots of CO's were completing senior level work and above for multiple years never were promoted.

Perfect if you believe in any positive reviews here Perfect if you like a SLT who continously underperform Perfect if you like to be cliquey with management. Massage their egos Perfect if you are a yes person and don't want to rock the boat Perfect if you are a freeloader (lot's of them here). Hate the company, but just take the pay packet and do the bare minimum Perfect if you like an HR department that solely protects the company. Complaints or serious misconduct are manipulated & buried. Perfect if you like to gossip, corporate services absolutely hate the rest of the company. Perfect if you like to watch your career take a nosedive and the company consistently get worse Perfect if you like to be treated like a 4th class citizen yet do the majority of the work (Global SLT, UK SLT, Consultants, then Corporate Services)

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.

Pros of Working at Capco 1. Strong Domain Focus in Finance Capco has a solid reputation in banking and capital markets. Great place to work if you're interested in fintech, regulatory tech, or digital transformation in finance. 2. Exposure to Tier-1 Clients You'll likely work with top banks, insurance firms, and investment companies. Projects are typically enterprise-scale, with complex architectures. 3. Learning & Growth Opportunities to work on modern tech stacks: Angular, React, Java, Spring Boot, .NET, cloud (AWS/Azure), microservices. Good for consultants aiming to grow in both technology and domain knowledge. 4. Agile Delivery & Professionalism Emphasis on agile, scrum, and DevOps culture. Structured environments with defined KPIs and performance metrics. 5. Hybrid/Global Work Culture Depending on the location, Capco offers flexible/hybrid work models. Culturally diverse teams across US, UK, Europe, and India. ⚠️ Cons / Challenges 1. Project Allocation You might be on bench for a while if you’re not aligned with a billable client. Roles may be client-dependent, which means sudden project switches or travel may happen. 2. Work-Life Balance Depends on the client project. Some report long hours and tight deadlines, especially for capital market engagements. 3. Compensation Salaries are competitive but not top-tier compared to product-based companies. Bonuses and raises may vary based on client feedback and utilization. 4. Internal Mobility Internal project rotation or technology shift can be slow or limited. Sometimes opportunities to move into product-oriented roles are lacking. 🧪 Ideal for You If: You want to work in consulting and enjoy client-facing roles. You're interested in finance + technology. You prefer structured, agile-driven, and regulated environments.

You want to work in consulting and enjoy client-facing roles. You're interested in finance + technology. You prefer structured, agile-driven, and regulated environments.