Sogeti reviews

Sogeti is definitely not the place for anyone in IT, let alone anyone looking to do true consulting. "Consultants" are treated solely as resources to sell to clients and not as solution deliverers (staff augmentation). Sales, sales, sales is the only focus you will hear over and over again, starting at the very top. Bonuses are based purely on business development aka sales and profit contribution aka your billing rate. Sogeti will pad their bids with work that no one at the company can actually do just to win it (because the company is driven by profit margin). Once contracts are won, they immediately seek out people who can do the job for cheap and then do a poor job of delivering to the client, which is very transparent. Due to the company's poor strategy of just winning any and all contracts, and not truly focusing on delivering quality solutions, the type of work you will be given at any moment is very unstable and quite unsatisfying. As long as you remain billable, no one at the company cares what you are doing, even if it's reading Yahoo News articles all day. With that, there is also an extreme lack of career development and mentoring for those who want to move up in their careers and are not okay with being complacent. Senior leadership does not care about developing leaders, retaining talent, and growing people's careers. Being promoted to manager does not mean you will get to manage teams and projects. There is NO logical correlation between your title, your skills, and the type of work you do. Consultants, whether fresh-out-of-college or managers, are merely treated like monopoly pieces in a game of profit. The attrition rate is extremely high due to all the aforementioned flaws with the company. Some people have left no more than 2-6 months in after quickly realizing how detrimental being at Sogeti long-term would be to one's career and returning to their former companies. However, the attrition rate is not just from people leaving, but also Sogeti's willingness to easily terminate people if they cannot place them right away. Overall, don't waste your time and look elsewhere. Getting a job at Sogeti is easy for a reason.

- no support from management - poor treatment of employees and customers: threatened to sue both me and my client when i left - threatened to sue me for a breach of employee agreement by going to work for my client (not technically a violation, as it's not consulting services), though other people who left at the same time to work for their clients received no such threat - bonus structure is an absolute joke - recruiters love to tout "the opportunity for a $20,000 bonus!" but you will be lucky if you get $2,500. - no support for working mothers - i had to pump in a locker room, where i got walked in on by male cleaning staff - almost no annual compensation increase, and no communication about it last year - mixed messages: consistent emails saying how well the company is doing, funding bonuses at 102%, but consultants taking salary cuts - really poor morale in the office - mandatory evening events scheduled with a week's notice - not a ton of diversity in clients, though that may be changing - even when my client manager specifically told sogeti he wanted me to take a particular training class, they said they wouldn't let me pay for it with the education stipend they talk up while recruiting you. - local and even some national leadership doesn't seem to be able to handle pressure well