American Capital Reviews

Pros

The company cares about its people. It was a great experience to work there. Excellent Benefits

Cons

There were no major cons to report at all

Pros

1. People are collaborative; 2. Business is dynamic; 3. Insight into various industries

Cons

1. Investors pressures; 2. Volatility to various industries; 3. Volatility to market.

Pros

Good. Team work together for best result.

Cons

Top management luck freindship and personality.

Pros

Full benefits and generous 401K

Cons

Long work hours. Lower pay

Pros

It was Absolutely the most awesome place to work

Cons

Company was sold way too soon

Pros

The pay, benefits, and company culture was great.

Cons

Job security can be on the lower when working for a PE firm.

Pros

American Capital has a great working environment

Cons

no much room to grow

Pros

Smart people everywhere in the company

Cons

Moronic executive management that wasted it all

Pros

Have been with the company for 13 years. I'm always learning something new here, and while some things get old, there are always enough challenges to keep me intellectually engaged. It's a roll-up-your-sleeves environment where even mid-high level managers are comfortable taking on the "doing" tasks when necessary. The benefits are great, the flexibility is a huge positive. While there are some departmental culture differences, the firm loosely embraces a work anywhere as long as you're productive policy which is fantastic. Pay is pretty good, and I love the people I work with. I was pleasantly surprised when hired and continue to be impressed with the laid back but tenacious and dedicated staff. Coming from another company that was a much stiffer financial services environment, the ACAS culture has been a breath of fresh air.

Cons

Senior management does not focus on operations as much as investments While this is good in some ways, it can be bad from the context of optimizing the efficiency of how information is gathered and disseminated throughout the organization. Strategy is set, but many process initiatives lack the follow-through required by senior management to enforce or encourage adoption. This can create many operational challenges in inter-departmental processes.

Pros

Great benefits and the office is located in the Downtown area.

Cons

Let me start off by saying this...I should've trusted the company reviews and ratings before I accepted the offer letter. The Annapolis Office is small (6 ppl), SUPER clichy so if you're not going to happy hour or out to lunch with them daily, trust me...they will find any and everything to nitpick about to make you feel like you're not doing your job and let you go. The men in the office are the type of people who will throw rocks and then hide their hands. I was at this company for a month and a half and I refused to go to their "happy hours" for religous reasons. They wound up firing me. Their excuse was, "You forgot to order bananas for the office" - Petty! My work was always completed before or on time, I was respectful and attentive. My advice, don't even think about working here. If you don't fit in with them, they WILL get rid of you.