CapTech reviews about "bully"

Space The warp speed turnover and lack of space equates to a hot mess of people sitting at picnic benches in the kitchen or sitting on floors to do work. Compensation and benefits Salaries are paltry and barely within the average for most positions. Worst benefits package I have seen compared to quite literally every other job I've held. Leadership In Charlotte they are either incompetent or play favorites (or both) Lack of feedback Reviews and feedback are a joke. You will get fired with zero warning, zero prior discipline, and no history of mistakes, simply because a senior staff member doesn't like you on a personal level, end of story. I can't tell you how many people, who were excellent employees and put in 50-60 hour work weeks, I've seen this happen to, and then had it subsequently covered up by HR. It's one HUGE high school clique. Insane turnover I've never seen anything like it. It's a revolving door working at hyper speed. Picture a jet turbine. You have GROUPS of new hires quite literally every other week and so many people leaving that you have trouble keeping track. After-hours events It's an unspoken rule that your lack of attendance to these is held against you by senior managers, even if you have legitimate after-work activities that prevent you from going (Dr appointments, picking up your kids, etc). They won't do anything obvious to you about it in the open, but they will make sideways comments and use it as a means of playing favorites with other employees over you. Lack of direction, suppression, and huge bench periods I knew several people there who had been "on the bench" for up to 5 months or so, even when there were positions that had come available in that timeframe. Usually this happened to female developers, while the openings went to the male ones. If you are on a project, you are often not given any specific direction or idea of where you're supposed to insert yourself, and you have a huge chance of being outright prevented from speaking to clients. This was so bad that multiple times projects and presentation materials I completed entirely by myself, had to be presented to clients by someone who was more of a "favorite" and who often could not explain the work well because they were unfamiliar with it. Sabotage Some instances of senior staff purposely changing work someone did or misleading them in doing their work so that they could hold the contrived mistakes against them, especially when they didn't like the person and were looking for a means of getting rid of them. This company and this office in particular, is a terrible place to work. I left because I couldn't see a future for my career here and I still think it's the best decision I've made for my career to this day. Honestly, it's not worth the hassle because you will either be looking for work again in the next few months because you can't stand the place or because you were forced out by the rampant bullying that is enabled at this office.

- Staff augmentation, so don't expect to use skills you have or learn new ones - Toxic culture, bullying, and retaliation driven by immature and insecure leadership - Low compensation compared to competitors with expensive benefits - Not prepared at all for COVID, so they furloughed and laid off most staff while leadership not only stayed but also took no pay cuts

Leadership in the office is poor. The show and talk often seem good, but leadership is best described as fraudulent. Unless you are comfortable being a sycophant, be ready for excessive politics and having to deal with highly manipulative and toxic behavior. Some examples include narcissistic motivations, ego driven decision making, impulsive reactions, bullying, and gaslighting. Some leaders will take credit for business someone else developed and sold if it can advance their own interests. I’ve witnessed an office leader viewing You Tube gaming videos during team reviews of pending client presentations and pitches. Colleagues are routinely bad mouthed by leaders when outside the office. The adage, “people don’t leave companies, they leave bosses” is true here. Turnover is high and was high before COVID-19. A large percentage, if not a majority, of senior managers and directors have short tenures; creating a deficit of continuity or consistency. Office growth does not sufficiently explain this. Transparency from leadership is lacking, but tremendous energy and lip service are expended to foster the perception of transparency. If leaders are being transparent, they shouldn’t have to constantly tell everyone how they are being transparent. “Well done is better than well said.” Servant leadership? For many leaders this means how do those around me serve my agenda, my schedule, and my benefit. The criticisms found in other reviews regarding promotions are accurate and fair. Every promotion cycle includes multiple “head scratchers” as to what criteria were applied to warrant that promotion. Favoritism is rampant. A strong majority of the work is higher end staff augmentation type. Salary is a little below average to average. Most of the time there is balance and flexibility between life and work. However, if you happen to have a super demanding client; you’ll be expected to grind out long hours to meet client demands. You won’t see much additional reward for doing so.

The leadership at CapTech is inept at best, toxic at worst. Staffing is very short sighted, and they seem to be in a mindset of just throwing bodies at things. Career growth is an absolute mess. Promotion standards are extremely inconsistent, and can depend a lot on who your coach is. Your performance and internal contributions don't matter much if leadership just doesn't like you (for whatever reason). Women, be prepared to be constantly smiling and upbeat. This is the only way the male leadership will find you even minimally worthy. You'll have to work 10x as hard anyway. Please don't bring your authentic self to work, it will hurt you. They love to reward toxicity, as evidenced by someone getting a large promotion while under HR investigation for bullying. HR is generally untrustworthy and will tell lies about employees to leadership.