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Terrible capgemini stories |
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Thank you |
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03/08/2006 |
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I never was actually in a roundtable session so this is strictly hear say...
For starters, you have a set of targets based on your level (utilization, sales, revenue managed and maybe others).
At the end of the year your counselor gives you an overall rating based on how you measured up to your targets (all's fair so far).
Then your counselor represents you at a roundtable event where you are stacked up against others in your business unit. Your high utilization can be compared to other's utilization and their's can be higher - maybe they were on a local project where it was easy to bill 50 hours a week and you were working out of town where you had to spend Sunday's and Friday's commuting and could only bill 45 hours a week. At the end of the year your utilization is compared to theirs - and guess who wins?
You have busted your you know what for a year - and what do you get? Probably nothing! Is that fair? I didn't think so.
Bottom line - like was said above - they have enough tools to hang you if that's what they want to do!
I've also heard that everyone that partcipates in a roundtable has to sign something saying that what happens during this process will not leave the room ... Maybe someone that's been in a REAL one can chime in and enlighten everyone..
All I know is that I don't have to worry about what happens to me behind those closed doors any longer!
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Anyone else has other opinions? Maybe a people manager who has sat in a roundtable?
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