Digital Design Dump - Anonymous employee Capco Employee Review

2.0
Nov 30, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Had a few good designers, UXers and strategiest but they're all gone by now. Free water was nice and equipment was good.

Cons

Capco got into a business that they didn't understand and never established a business strategy to be competitive in the market. Like a true disconnected Wall Street company, they think that because they have money and pay people, that they will flourish. This is not the case and leaderships load of hot air got outted among the teams really fast, labeling the whole department a joke. Once everyone lost hope in the grand vision they pitched to designers to come in the first place, people started dropping like flies. Bad account management, lack of actual agency experience among senior leadership, and a broken consulting business model was the downfall . They were pitching companies on pipe dreams that were undeliverable and everyone knew it. It became a joke, Capco thought who they were but ask anyone else in the industry, it turns into"Capco who?"

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