Reply to: Anyone has experience working at Capita

[eek]

They are not known as Crapita without due reason.

[ChrisPackit]

A contractor friend of mine jumped ship from ClientCo where I still am, onto a role for HMRC through Capita. The deal looked good on paper with promises of many months worth of potential work, but worked maybe 4 or 6 weeks before being given 4 weeks notice....

I beleive he's still benched and, in hindsight, wouldn't have jumped ship if he had known.

[Freamon]

Entirely depends on which of their contracts you are working on, they are all set up basically completely independently of each other with entirely different processes/culture etc.

[BA to the Stars]

I once worked on a project for Capita. They changed the project manager every 2 weeks. By the time the project finished I had dealt with 20 different women and they would call me at odd hours to resolve issues. Nightmare !

Women eh

[bobspud]

Crapita are ******* tulipe. I wouldnt work for them again. They want a ton on intrusive info off you before they'll consider you for a contract role, and seem to have taken to the governments scheme of making sure your iR35 caught ot at least account for the taxes you should pay as if caught.

Avoid!!

Not from what I have seen. They just washed their hands of it making the contractor responsible. At my site the current proposal is for contractors to provide a letter from their acountant and a contract review from a reputable Tax Firm (pick one from PCG website). Problem sorted no change to IR35 status just common sense. However what got my client to this point was seeing a broad range of their key project staff walk off site never to return. My discussion resulted in an agreement to up my renewal rate by £100 per day to cover additional risk and accountancy fees that this mess has casued.

So the answer is if you are coming to do business with the Government or Capita set your rate accordingly.

[acontractor]

Thanks for the all who gave informative responses. Hope this is not for the public sector one...

Hoping to hear for the interview soon ...

fingures cross

[fullyautomatix]

I once worked on a project for Capita. They changed the project manager every 2 weeks. By the time the project finished I had dealt with 20 different women and they would call me at odd hours to resolve issues. Nightmare !

[cojak]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...ntracting.html

[acontractor]

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Next renewal will be fun as their new public sector taxation stuff in the contract will kick in (at which point I'll be slinging my hook).

B

Is this only for renewals or new contractors as well? Any pointers of where I can find more information about the taxation...

[BolshieBastard]

Hi,

I know this has been asked before back in 2009 but since its been a while and the env. could have changed slightly?
Does anyone knows about working at capita?

I heard they do hire and fire quickly (does anyone has any personal experience of this?)

Edit: This is for software developer Contract role

Thanks

Crapita are ******* tulipe. I wouldnt work for them again. They want a ton on intrusive info off you before they'll consider you for a contract role, and seem to have taken to the governments scheme of making sure your iR35 caught ot at least account for the taxes you should pay as if caught.

Avoid!!

[tractor]

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Haven't been with Capita since 2002. then they were pretty good, particularly on the payment front.

Since, I have applied for one or two roles but their contractor recruitment processes puts me off bothering again.

[malvolio]

I'm with Capita, along with about 40,000 other people. But then they have dozens of independent subsidiary companies like my client; it would be foolish to assume they all treated their contractors the same way. Permies is another matter - but who cares about permies?

[northernladuk]

So hiring and firing only happens to permies??

Does the wording really need to be so contractor precise. We all know what he means PedanticLadUK

Bearing in mind this is the OP that thinks lying on his CV to look like a contractor as he has little to no experience as one so I think a lesson on a change of thinking for this particular OP is one he needs to take heed of.

We might know what he means but he doesn't.

[bracken]

Middle of the road...

I've been with them for 6 months in public sector in a del manager role. Lots of paperwork to start and pretty inflexible in terms of contract/trying to get them to do things in parallel. Once signed up, they're fine...only one bollox up on their self billing led to late payment. Rather like my women, I've been with better and definitely worse...very much middle of the road for me.

Next renewal will be fun as their new public sector taxation stuff in the contract will kick in (at which point I'll be slinging my hook).

B

[jmo21]

You are a contractor, their hiring and firing habit has nothing to do with you.

So hiring and firing only happens to permies??

Does the wording really need to be so contractor precise. We all know what he means PedanticLadUK