A mess from top to bottom. I will echo others review and say that it is one big Staff Augmentation high school party. There is a reason that this topic is constantly brought up again. CapTech’s main issues is that don’t know how to handle constructive criticism. They have gone out of their way to remove unflattering (but true) reviews and bury their head in the sand. When it gets brought up how trashed employees and leadership get at parties they respond by policing alcohol for a couple events and then move right back to normal. The problem is culturally that office leadership feels it’s appropriate to get drunk in public in the first place.
CapTech has a huge diversity problem but again, they see this as a one-dimensional problem. They ONLY see it as a racial problem (which it is) but it goes far beyond race at CapTech. Someone needs to tell them that diversity goes beyond that. Most of the Richmond and Reston office are filled with folks from the same Virginia colleges. The entire company reeks of college nepotism. Leadership continues to fail to address or even recognize it. The good news if you come in as a nepotism hire you will get a seat at the table and given preferential treatment.
The promotion process is unfair and unclear, mostly going to the Virginia college hires and favorites. It is not uncommon for a college hire fresh out of school to be promoted all the way to manager in the first 4 years of their career while others with 10+ years of experience won’t even come in at that level.
The coup de grâce for me came during the round of 2020 layoffs. During the coronavirus outbreak a couple of clients were impacted and had to drop CapTech (says a lot during the first sign of trouble a client drops CapTech) as a result CapTech had to “terminate” employees. While it is a business at the end of the day, it was shockingly cruel the way CapTech “terminated” staff. The weeks prior, CapTech went out of their way to let staff know that they extensively planned for economic downturns and they were going to “preserve the talent” and promised no layoffs. Two weeks later on a Friday, they dropped a bomb that any resources not on a project would be furloughed after 45 days and terminated after 90. Yes, you are reading that correctly, the ever so polished HR staff used the verbiage “terminated” in their communications. But wait……it gets even worse. The “terminations” would only apply to managers and below, so again, this is where that Virginia Good Ol’ boys club comes into the play. Leadership who is responsible for staffing and business development chose to terminate lower ranking consultants who were just unlucky to be on a project hit by the economic downturn and leaderships failure to win work to re-staff them. They are cowards who were too scared to go down with the ship THEY sunk.
