This is a tier 2 or 3 consulting company - Associate Consultant Sogeti Employee Review

I was a college hire and sat on the bench for 4 months with no work before I decided it was time to call it quits and find a better job. Sogeti sees college hires as cheap risks because sometimes they can make a fortune off of entry level professionals for 60-70k per year when they're getting billed at $100/hr. Our first two weeks of "training" consisted of watching powerpoints from mostly unenthused Sogeti consultants for 8 hours a day in Ohio. They covered topics like Java, cloud computing, DevOps, etc. These are awesome things to learn, but it's not a way to actually teach anything. People were literally falling asleep. Bench time sucks. You're not allowed to work from home unless you give them "satisfiable" reasons like appointments and emergencies. One week my car broke down and I ended up having to spend $200+ in ubers just to show up and do nothing. While on the bench, you're required to go to your unit office from 9-4:30 every day and sit in a conference room. Most other consulting companies understand that this is a waste of your time and will let you stay at home until they find you a project. They pride themselves to be a consulting company, but it's not always the case. In many instances it isn't different than contracting. At least half of their consultants have been on projects for 3+ years that it gets to a point where they really aren't consulting anymore, they're contracting. You have skills and expertise, but you aren't put on projects to share that knowledge. You go on a project because the client is shorthanded. Sogeti pushes consultants towards work unsuitable for their career. As a software developer, I was asked to maintain a government project that had an 18 year old, vb.NET error-filled and buggy application that only works on IE browsers. For 2 years. I said that this does nothing to further my career and rejected it. They gave me the whole rundown on how consultants need to accept anything they're given and how bad experiences can be learned from. They let me sit on the bench a while longer. It proved to me that money is more important to them than their employees. Raises are bad. I talked to a sr consultant and he said that he gets 1-2k raises each year. He had been working there for 5 years and wasn't surprised that newly hired sr consultants were earning more than him. The bonus system is strange. The top 30% of consultants earn $500-2000 monthly bonuses for doing things like satisfying clients, going to company meetings, and earning further education. There is no culture at Sogeti. Nobody seems to care or have any enthusiasm for what they do. They see it as a job that pays the bills. Which is fine for many people, but not for me.