Capital One Reviews

Cons

I have nothing bad to say about the company.

Cons

Gender-biased, misguided, disorganized, competitive structure, reorgs frequent

This place is trying to be a start-up with huge enterprise problems—it's awkward. Makes for a lot of wasted effort for people trying to get things done in an innovative way with business-side making the last judgment. Shiny object syndrome. Emphasis on PR moments over fixing real problems.

Performance reviews lend to a gender- or personality-bias when it comes to promotions. Women and/or introverts often get the short end of the stick unless they have a great/shark managers. I've seen the most ineffective game-players get promoted over competent and effective peers who seemed to get punished for actually getting things done and not wasting their energy dick-swinging or taking unnecessary travel. In effect, a lot of the people promoted do not make for the best leadership. Bad management.

Too many cooks in the kitchen with product or design, not enough project managers (or none at all).

Constant reorganization is exhausting and disorienting. Nobody knows what's going on. Deflates spirit and doesn't help progress.

Cons

Performance Management is on a bell curve and your 1-5 rating greatly affects your career trajectory, salary and bonus. As a result, associates are forced to "play the game" of doing anything they can to appear to be a little better than their peers. This creates a culture where employees routinely take credit for other employees work including managers who are playing the same game as their subordinates. All in it creates a toxic work atmosphere.

Cons

1. Work pressure. No work life balance. Managers tell you that you should not work after 5 PM. But on the other hand, you have unrealistic deadlines. Agile is out of picture. Work is taken in chunks and divided into sprints. PO says “we have to deliver this in this many sprints”. In office hours, we have tons of meetings and no room for actual work. This leaves no choice and you end up working from home after office hours.
2. Office politics - corruption, bias, favoritism at its peak.
3. Incompetent managers and peers who are waiting for you to finish your work and then steal it and showcase as their own piece of art. After work is done, manager will say you didn’t do anything great. You are hired to do this. Everyone else is doing the same. What are you doing extra??
4. No freedom to be yourself - just pretend you like Capital one in front of your manager.
5. Team work vs individual performance management - all year, mobbing is enforced and people who want to take up something on their own are blamed in the retrospectives. At the end of year, no one knows who did the actual work. Only manager’s favorite guy gets the promotion. The least favorite might even end up losing their job.
6. Idiotic meetings - two hours of useless meetings to come up with some points on blah blah which is not helpful in any actual work.

Cons

Poor Management in some departments

Cons

- More of a presence for on campus recruitment
- Only 40 positions available

Cons

Hard to say here. Everybody can say one bad thing about their manager. This is true in every company though.

Cons

Bell curve performance management, and non transparent calibrations

Cons

Some managers have too much bias

Cons

Really don't have anything bad to say.