Capital One Canada is a sinking ship - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

3.0
Apr 3, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great culture and good work life balance - Good tech stack

Cons

- Compensation (salary, bonus, annual raise) is way below market for software engineering - Lots of lip service and "swag" but they don't put the money where their mouth is - If you're a software engineer, you will spend a big chunk of your time dealing with vulnerabilities remediation, adopting/onboarding to enterprise in-house tools/monitoring, and much less time engineering actual products - Title inflation, recent grad one year out of school can be promoted to "Senior" Software Engineer. This is an insult to actual senior engineers. - Terrible performance management process - Promotion process is muddy and the goal post shifts every year - Canada business has been on a downhill trend for years (lost two partnerships, lack of competitive branded products, can't retain customers that graduate from the secured cards) - Company townhalls turned into personal story time from senior leadership and less about the business.

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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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